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DR.  JOSEPH  T.  MILLER  DR.  HARTWELL  C.  HOWARD 

Located  in  Urbana  in  1853  Located  in  Champaign  in  1855 

Dr.  Miller  and  Dr.  Howard  are  the  only  living  representatives  of  the 
medical  men  who  fifty  years  ago  (March  4,  1859)  organized  the  Cham- 
paign County  Medical  Society.  Dr.  Miller,  by  reason  of  being  in  contin- 
uous practice  longer  than  any  of  his  competitors  is  entitled  to  the  honor 
of  being  called  Our  Medical  Nestor.  However,  Dr.  Howard's  time  of 
continuous  practice  in  Champaign  County  is  only  exceeded  by  that  of 
Dr.  Miller, 


MEDICINE 


IN 


CHAMPAIGN  COUNTY 


A    HISTORICAL   SKETCH 


BY 


CHARLES  B.  JOHNSON,  M.D. 


"BACK  ON  THE  PAST  HE  TURNS  HIS  EYE' 


FIFTIETH    ANNIVERSARY    SOUYENIR    EDITION 

CHAMPAIGN,  ILLINOIS 
1909 


GAZETTE    PRESS     OHMffiHD     CHAMPAIGN,   ILLINOIS 


CONTENTS 


Frontispiece 

Biographical  Sketches  9 

Champaign  County  Medical  Society  -  53 

Conclusion  81 

Deceased  Physicians  59 

Fifty  Years  in  Practice    -  -  58 

Interesting  Facts     -  -  76 

Introductory  5 

Intermediate  Era     -  -77 

Index  82 

Hospital,  Julia  F.  Burnham     -  -  60 

Location  of  Doctors     -  -       63 

Medical  Practice  Act  62 

Members,  List  of  1860  -  53 

Members,  List  of  18'.)9  56 
Members,  List  of  1909                                         -     ,    -       -     56 

Modern  Era  -       80 

Patriotism,  Champaign  County  Doctors  -  -  75 

^Prefatory     -  4 

<"Pioneer  Doctors       -  -     6 

^Pioneer  Era  —    78 

Pioneer  Doctors  -  6 

..Politics,  Champaign  County  Doctors  in     -  61 

-Progress  in  Medicine      -  -     77 
V  Violent  Deaths  and  Accidents         .....  76 


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PREFATORY. 

In  the  dim  waste  lands  of  the  Orient  stands 

The  wreck  of  a  race  so  old  and  vast, 
That  the  grayest  legend  can  not  lay  hands 

On  a  single  fact  of  its  tongueless  past;    ' 
Not  even  the  red  gold  crown  of  a  king, 

Nor  a  warrior's  shield,  nor  aught  beside, 
Can  history  out  of  the  ruins  wring,  — 

They  had  no  poet  and  so  they  died. 

The  same  old  tale!  and  so  it  will  be, 

As  long  as  the  heavens  feed  the  stars, — 
As  long  as  the  tribes  of  men  shall  see 

A  lesser  glory  in  arts  than  wars; 
And 'so  let  us  live,  and  labor,  and  pray, 

As  down  we  glide  with  the  darkling  tide, 
That  never  a  singer  of  us  may  say, 

They  had  no  poet  and  so  they  died. 

—James  Newton  Matthew.?,  M.  D. 


MEDICINE   IN  CHAMPAIGN  COUNTY 


INTRODUCTORY.  area?   Could   he     make     passable 

Before  speaking  of  medicine  in  roads  through  its  deep,  black,  tar- 
Champaign  county  a  few  words  ry  soil?  Could  he  get  the  mastery 
relative  to  the  county  itself  may__of  the  luxuriant  and  seemingly  in- 
not  be  out  of  place.  Feb.  20,  1833,  destructible  blue  stem  that  ap- 


Governor  John  Reynolds  signed 
the  act  creating  the  present  terri- 
torial limits  of  Champaign  county 
and  setting  it  off  from  Vermilion 
county,  of  which  it  had  hitherto 
formed  a  part.  Champaign  coun- 
ty is  36  miles  long,  28  wide,  con- 
tains i, 008  square  miles,  has  a 
population  of  upwards  of  fifty 
thousand  inhabitants  and  all  now 
realize  that  the  earth  affords  no 
better  country  than  that  embraced 
within  its  limits. 

But  at  the  date  of  the  county's 
organization,  its  population,  and 
its  future  as  a  desirable  dwelling 
place  was  uncertain  to  the  last  de- 
gree. For  it  was  then  a  new  coun- 
try as  wild  and  as  nearly  overrun 
by  rank  vegetation  as  the  warm 
sunshine,  the  quickening  rainfall 
and  a  responsive  soil  could  make 
it:  A  new  country  indeed  in  which 
for  untold  ages  unbridled  nature 
had  run  riot.  Could  man  con- 
quer this  country?  Could  he  sub- 
due this  wilderness?  Could  he 
turn  to  profitable  use  the  immense 
stretches  of  prairie  that  constitut- 
ed nine-tenths  of  the  countv's 


peared  to  be  in  absolute  and  eter- 
nal possession  of  the  prairie? 
Could  he  drain  the  sloughs  and 
ponds  that  seared  and  marred  the 
otherwise  beautiful  face  of  this 
country?  Could  he  bridge  the 
streams  with  their  treacherous 
beds  and  banks  of  quicksand? 
These  were  but  a  few  of  the  prob- 
lems that  presented  themselves  to 
the  pioneer  and  the  perils  he  en- 
countered and  the  hardships  he 
endured  are  all  but  impossible  for 
those  of  us  to  realize  who  live  in  a 
more  favored  era. 

The  points  of  early  settlement  in 
what  afterwards  became  Cham- 
paign County  were  Big  Grove,  the 
pioneer's  name  for  the  timber 
north  of  Urbana,  and  within  the 
southern  limits  of  which  that  city 
is  located;  Salt  Fork,  in  and  about 
St  Joseph;  Sangamon  settlement, 
in  and  about  Mahomet;  and  Sa- 
dorus  Grove,  in  and  about  the  vil- 
lage of  Sadorus. 

At  the  time  of  the  organization 
of  Champaign  County  in  1833  Ur- 
bana was  designated  as  the  Coun- 
ty Seat  and  then  and  there  en- 


tered  upon  its  career  of  promise 
and  prosperity.  But  of  its  Twin 
Sister,  the  City  of  Champaign, 
there  was  at  this  time  not  the 
faintest  hint  or  sign.  Indeed  its 
destiny  was  so  securely  hidden  in 
the  mists  of  the  future  that  for  the 
mere  heralding  of  its  advent  twen- 
ty years  must  needs  unfold  their 
weary  length.  Of  the  coming  city 
the  most  visionary  did  not  so 
much  as  dream.  And  little  won- 
der, for  the  very  heart  of  the  fu- 
ture city's  business  center  was  one 
vast  pond,  in  whose  shallows  cat- 
tails and  slough  grass  luxuriated; 
in  whose  oozy  depths  mud  turtles 
and  other  amphibians  found  a  cool 
retreat  from  the  scorching  rays  of 
the  summer's  sun;  and  whose 
green,  scum-coated  surface  was 
crossed  and  cris-crossed  by  the 
trail  of  the  water-moccasin. 
While  all  about  the  atmosphere 
seemed  loaded  with  poisonous  ex- 
halations that  foreboded  the  stalk- 
ing abroad  of  deadly  disease  and 
noisome  pestilence. 

PIONEER  DOCTORS  IN  THE 
COUNTY. 

The  names  of  physicians  en- 
titled to  come  under  this  head  are 
few,  as  only  those  who  came  to  the 
County  in  the  first  ten  years  of 
its  history  can  be  included.  The 
writer  has  succeeded  in  collecting 
the  names  of  Drs.  Fulkerson, 
James  H.  Lyon,  N.  H.  Adams, 
Harmon  Stevens,  John  S.  Saddler, 


Winston  Somers,  W.  A.  Conkey 
and  C.  C.  Hawes.  There  are 
doubtless  others,  that  should  go  in 
this  list,  but  if  so  their  names  are 
not  available. 

Dr.  Fulkerson  was  the  first  phy- 
sician to  locate  within  the  limits 
of  what  is  now  Champaign  Coun- 
ty. But  of  him  little  is  known, 
not  even  his  Christian  name.  It  is 
known,  however,  that  he  was  a 
young  unmarried  man  who  came 
in  1830  and  remained  but  one 
year.  He  had  his  office  and  resi- 
dence at  the  home  of  Mrs.  Sarah 
Coe,  who  lived  near  the  north  end 
of  the  Big  Grove.  Upon  leaving 
Big  Grove  he  went  west,  but  of 
his  subsequent  history  nothing  is 
known. 

Dr.  N.  H.  Adams,  Mahomet's 
first  physician,  located  in  that  vil- 
lage in  the  thirties,  but  just  what 
year  is  not  known.  He  practiced 
a  good  many  years  at  Mahomet 
and  finally  died  there,  but  the  date 
of  his  death  can  not  be  given; 
neither  can  much  of  his  history. 

Dr.  C.  C.  Hawes  located  in  Ma- 
homet in  1843  and  practiced  medi- 
cine in  and  about  the  village  near- 
ly thirty  years.  It  is  regretted 
that  little  or  nothing  of  his  history 
is  available  for  this  record.  Old 
citizens  who  knew  him,  however, 
speak  of  him  as  a  competent  phy- 
sician and  a  good  citizen.  He 
died  at  Mahomet  in  1872,  aged 
about  62  years. 

In  1832  Dr.  James  H.  Lyon  lo- 


cated  at  the  home  of  Mijamin  By- 
ers,  two  miles  east  of  Urbana,  and 
for  a  time  practiced  medicine 
there.  He  removed  to  where  the 
village  of  Sidney  now  is  and  in 
1837  became  one  of  its  founders. 

The  date  and  place  of  Dr. 
James  H  .Lyon's  birth  cannot  be 
given,  although  he  is  said  to  have 
been  a  native  of  Kentucky.  He 
was  a  lover  of  fine  stock  and 
owned  considerable  land  in  the 
county.  He  was  one  of  the  first, 
if  not  the  first,  person  to  bring 
finely  bred  animals  in  Champaign 
County.  By  those  who  knew  him 
he  is  spoken  of  as  a  large,  fine- 
looking  man.  In  1836  he  was 
elected  a  member  of  the  lower 
house  of  the  Tenth  General  As- 
sembly which  John  Moses  in  his 
recent  history  of  Illinois  says  was 
"one  of  the  most  remarkable  bod- 
ies of  law-makers  that  ever  as- 
sembled in  the  legislative  halls  of 
Illinois  or  any  other  state." 

Among  its  members  were  in- 
cluded a  future  president  of  the 
United  States,  a  defeated  candi- 
date for  the  same  high  office,  six 
future  United  States  senators, 
eight  members  of  the  National 
.House  of  Representatives,  a  secre- 
tary of  the  interior,  three  judges 
of  the  Supreme  Court,  and  seven 
state  officers.  Here  sat  side  by 
side  Abraham  Lincoln  and  Steph- 
en A.  Douglas;  the  gallant  E.  D. 
Baker,  John  Logan,  father  of  Gen- 
eral John  A.  Logan,  Richard  M 


Cullom,  Father  of  Senator  Ctil 
lorn,  General  John  A.  Mc- 
Clernnand,  "Uncle"  Jesse  Dubois 
and  a  host  of  other  notables  in- 
cluding such  names  as  Gen.  James 
Shields,  Col.  John  Hardin,  U.  F. 
Linder,  Ninian  W.  Edwards,  etc. 

Dr.  Lyons  was  the  first  physi- 
cian to  locate  in  Sidney,  but  he 
seems  to  have  removed  from  the 
County  some  time  in  the  early  for- 
ties. He  died  at  Preston,  Texas, 
about  1888. 

Dr.  Harmon  Stevens  was  the 
first  doctor  to  locate  in  Old 
Homer,  but  the  exact  date  of  his 
so  doing  is  not  known.  It  is,  how- 
ever, thought  to  have  been  some 
time  in  the  thirties.  Dr.  Stevens 
had  a  very  large  practice  and  is 
well  remembered  by  some  of  the 
older  inhabitants  of  Homer.  He 
was  one  of  the  old-time  doctors, 
who  believed  in  and  gave  heroic 
doses.  He  practiced  medicine  at 
Homer  a  great  many  years  and 
then  removed  to  Newton,  111., 
where  he  died  July  7,  1882.  He 
was  a  native  of  Canada,  and  the 
date  of  his  birth  was  May  25,  1810. 

Dr.  John  S.  Saddler  was  the  first 
physician  to  locate  in  Urbana  and 
came  there  in  1839.  But  how  long 
he  remained  or  where  he  went  it 
is  not  now  possible  to  ascertain. 

Dr.  Winston  Somers  came  to 
Urbana  in  1840  and  remained  in 
practice  there  till  his  death  in 
1871.  He  was  born  in  Surrey 
County,  North  Carolina,  in  1800, 


obtaining  his  education  in  the  com- 
mon schools  of  his  native  state. 
Like  so  many  medical  men  Dr. 
Somers  taught  school  for  a  time 
as  a  sort  of  stepping-stone  to 
something  more  permanent.  One 
of  his  pupils  was  Miss  Mary  G. 
Haynes,  whom  he  afterward  mar- 
ried. He  began  the  study  of  med- 
icine and  after  qualifying  himself 
as  well  as  he  could,  considering 
the  existing  opportunities,  prac 
ticed  medicine  in  his  native  state 
for  a  number  of  years  and  in  1840 
removed  to  Illinois.  He  rode  all 
the  way  from  North  Carolina  on 
horseback.  On  his  way  he 
stopped  at  a  house  in  the  moun- 
tains to  remain  over  night.  His 
entertainers  lived  in  a  primitive 
log  cabin  and  in  the  night  Dr. 
Somers  heard  certain  noises  that 
he  did  not  like.  These  made  him 
suspicious  and  getting  up,  he  sad- 
dled his  horse  and  rode  away. 
Next  day  he  stopped  at  a  town 
and  remained  while  a  gunsmith 
made  for  him  a  brace  of  pistole 
and  armed  with  these  he  continued 
his  way  and  arrived  at  his  destina- 
tion in  safety.  The  pistols  were 
long  in  the  Somers  family  as  cur- 
iosities. A  little  later  he  re- 
turned to  North  Carolina  and  re- 


moved permanently  to  Illinois, 
bringing  his  family  and  belong- 
ings in  wagons. 

Dr.  Somers  was  a  strong  char- 
acter and  had  in  his  make-up 
much  of  the  strong,  hardy,  fibre 
iof  the  pioneer.  He  was  more- 
lover  thoughtful  and  studious,  and 
not  satisfied  with  his  education, 
Jie  applied  himself  anew  and  in 
1^853  graduated  from  Rush  Medi- 
ral  College,  Chicago.  Later  he 
jfook  up  the  study  of  Greek  and 
Hebrew  and  in  these  languages 
f.cquired  enough  proficiency  to 
tread  the  Bible  in  the  original  text. 
iVs  said  elsewhere,  Dr.  Somers 
(lied  at  his  home  in  Urbana  in 
(1871. 

Dr.  W.  A.  Conkey  located  in 
Homer  in  1843  and  continued  in 
practice  there  till  1850,  when  he 
exchanged  it  for  the  much  easier 
and  more  lucrative  business  of 
farming.  When  he  commenced 
practice  in  Homer  the  territory  in- 
cluded within  the  present  limits  of 
Homer  Township  contained  but 
nineteen  families.  Some  years 
since  Dr.  Conkey  removed  to  the 
village  o<f  Homer,  where  he  lived 
till  his  death,  which  occurred  Dec. 

2,    1937- 


BIOGRAPHICAL    SKETCHES 


Below  will  be  found  brief 
sketches  of  deceased  members  and 
those  living  who  have  passed  or 
are  near  their  fiftieth  mile  posts. 

Adams,  Dr.  N.  H.  See  Pio- 
neer Doctors  of  Champaign  Co. 


DR.  JOHN  H.  ALPERS. 

John  H.  Alpers  was  born  in 
Hanover,  Germany,  June  10, 
1836.  He  received  his  preliminary 
education  in  the  public  schools 
and  in  the  Gymnasium  of  Han- 
over. Subsequently  he  took  a 
three  years  course  in  medicine  at 


the  medical  College  of  Annalt, 
Gothen,  a  small  German  province. 
After  graduating  in  medicine  he 
emigrated  to  the  United  States 
in  1860  and  located  for  the  prac- 
tice of  his  profession  in  Wyandot 
County,  Ohio,  where  he  re- 
maired  till  1865.  Next  lie  located 
in  Danville,  111.,  and  was  there  ac- 
tively engaged  in  practice  till 
about  1870  when  lie  purchased  a 
farm  in  East  Bend  Township, 
Champaign  County,  to  which  he 
removed  and  soon  after  became 
actively  engaged  in  country  prac- 
tice among  his  neighbor  farmers. 

Tn  1874  he  removed  to  the  vil- 
lage of  Rantoul  where  he  has  ever 
pince  been  actively  occupied  with 
professional  work. 

Dr.  Emery  C.  Bartholow  was 
born  in  Ohio,  December  31,  1844. 
He  came  with  his  father,  the  Rev- 
erend Benjamin  Bartholow,  to 
Bloomington  when  a  small  fooy. 
He  attended  the  public  schools 
and  subsequently  Wesleyan  Uni- 
versity. In  1862  he  enlisted  in  the 
94th  Illinois  Infantry,  served  one 
year  and  a  half  in  this  organiza- 
tion when  he  was  transferred  to 
the  37th  Illinois  Infantry,  in  which 
he  served  one  year. 

Upon  leaving  the  army  young 
Bartholow  turned  his  attention  to 


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medicine  and  later  graduated  at 
Rush  Medical  College,  Chicago. 
In  1867  he  located  at  Mahomet 
for  the  practice  of -medicine  and  in 
this  he  was  engaged  till  his  health 
gave  way.  In  1876  Dr.  E,  C. 
Bartholow  was  one  of  the  repre- 
sentatives from  Champaign  Coun- 
ty in  the  legislature,  when  he  had 
opportunity  to  assist  in  securing 
the  passage  of  the  first  Medical 
Practice  Act  for  Illinois  Dr. 
Bartholow's  health  continued  to 
fail  and  in  the  early  nineties  he 
died. 

Dr.  Bartholow  was  a  thoughtful 
studious  man  of  fine  personal  ap- 
pearance and  a  ready  off-hand  talk- 
er. He  was  a  brother  of  Dr. 
James  M.  Bartholow  of  Urbana. 

Dr.  James  M.  Bartholow  was 
born  in  Urichville,  Ohio,  Febru- 
ary 1 8,  1847,  and  in  childhood  re- 
moved with  his  father,  the  Rever- 
end Benjamin  Bartholow,  a  well- 
known  Methodist  preacher,  to 
Bloomington,  111.  At  the  early 
age  of  fifteen  years  he  enlisted  in 
the  94th  Illinois  Infantry.  Dr. 
Bartholow  received  his  education 
in  the  common  schools,  and  also 
for  a  time  attended  Wesleyan  Uni- 
versity. When  yet  a  young  man 
he  took  up  the  study  of  medicine 
and  later  graduated  at  Rush  Med- 
ical College,  Chicago.  In  1869 
he  came  to  Philo  and  soon  built 
up  a  good  practice  there.  In  1895 
he  removed  to  Urbana  and  is  now 
a  practitioner  of  that  city.  He  is 


Dr.    JAMES    M.    BARTHOLOW. 


one  of  the  Board  of  United  States 
Surgeons  of  Champaign  County 
for  Pension  Examinations. 

Dr.  E.  I.  Birdsell  was  born  in 
Birmingham,  New  York,  Jan.  12, 
1844.  In  boyhood  much  of  his 
time  was  put  in  as  a  canal  boy.  He 
obtained  his  education  in  the  com- 
mon schools  and  later  studied 
medicine.  He  located  in  Pesotum 
in  1869  and  continued  in  practice 
there  till  1891,  when  he  removed 
to  Chicago,  where  he  died  on  his 
birthday,  Jan.  12,  1893,  having 
rounded  out  precisely  forty-nine 
years  of  life. 

Dr.  Samuel  H.  Birney  was  born 
in  Cadiz,  Ohio,  Nov.  2,  1834.  He 
graduated  in  medicine  from  Rush 
Medical.  College,  Chicago,  located 


in  Urbana  in  1861,  and  served  as 
surgeon  of  the  I35th  Illinois  In- 
fantry. He  was  an  active  man  in 
medical  societies  and  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  committee  appointed 
from  the  Illinois  State  Medical  So- 
ciety in  1876  to  memorialize  the 
legislature  to  secure  the  enactment 
of  a  law  regulating  the  practice  of 
medicine  and  creating  a  State 
Board  of  Health  in  Illinois.  For 
a  number  of  years  Dr.  Birney  was 
a  member  of  the  Champaign  Coun- 
ty Board  of  United  States  Sur- 
geons for  Pension  Examinations. 
In  1888  he  removed  to  Denver 
Colo.,  where  he  lived  till  1898, 
when  he  returned  to  Urbana. 
Meantime  his  health  failed  and 
July  i,  1900,  he  died. 

R.  H.  Brown  was  located  at  Ma- 
homet, Champaign  Co.,  at  the 
breaking  out  of  the  civil  war  and 
in  1861  became  Assistant  Surgeon 
of  the  25th  111.  Infantry  and  served 
in  the  field  two  years.  Some  time 
after  he  removed  West  and  is  now 
living  in  old  age  at  Wichita,  Kan. 
He  is  the  author  of  an  interesting- 
book,  the  title  of  which  is, 
"Abraham  Lincoln  and  the  Men 
of  his  Time." 

Dr.  Myron  S.  Brown  was  born 
at  Colton,  Newr  York,  June  30, 
1832.  Shortly  after  his  birth  his 
parents  removed  to  Ohio,  where 
young  Brown  grew  up.  He  ob- 
tained his  preliminary  education  in 


DR.    MYRON    S.    BROWN,    1832-1901. 


the  common  schools  and  soon  af- 
ter reaching  the  years  of  young 
manhood  began  the  study  of  med- 
icine. 

But  in  this  study  he  was  greatly 
hampered  by  circumstances  over 
which  he  had  no  control;  the  re- 
sult was  a  number  of  years  went 
by  before  he  was  able  to  complete 
his  medical  education.  Meanwhile 
he  removed  to  Urbana,  111.,  where 
he  engaged  in  various  pursuits, 
such  a  bookkeeper,  clerk,  and  the 
mercantile  business. 

Upon  the  breaking  out  of  the 
war  Dr.  Brown  in  1861  entered 
the  service  as  Assistant  Surgeon 
of  the  25th  Illinois  Infantry.  Here 


H 


DR.  W.  F.   BURRES. 


he  found  good  opportunities  for 
improving  his  professional  knowl- 
edge and  made  the  most  of  them. 

At  the  expiration  of  his  military 
service  Dr.  Brown  returned  to  Ur- 
bana  and  practiced  medicine  there 
till  May  1884,  when  he  removed  to 
Danville,  111.,  where  he  engaged  in 
practice  till  his  death  June  28, 
1901. 

Dr.  William  F.  Burres  was 
born  June  29,  i857,in  Coles  Coun- 
ty, Illinois.  His  early  days  were 
passed  on  a  farm  and  as  oppor- 
tunity offered  he  attended  the  pub- 
lic schools.  Later  he  for  a  time 
was  a  student  at  Asbury  Univer- 
sity, Greencastle,  Ind.,  and  like- 
wise at  Wesleyan  University, 
Bloomington,  111.  Finally  he  be- 
gan the  study  of  medicine  under 
Dr.  Wagner  of  Newman,  111.,  lat- 
er matriculated  at  Rush  Medical 
College  from  which  he  graduated 
in  1882.  He  chose  Sidney,  111., 
for  his  first  location  and  remained 
there  till  1900  when,  after  an  ex- 
tended trip  abroad,  he  removed  to 
Urbana,  111.,  where  he  has  since 
been  actively  engaged  profession- 
ally. 

Dr.  Herman  Chaffee  was  born 
in  Rutland  County,  Vermont, 
June  18,  1816.  He  decided  to  en- 
ter the  medical  profession  and  lat- 
er graduated  from  Albany  Medical 
College,  New  York.  After  gradu- 
ating he  spent  a  short  period  in 


DR.    HERMAN    CHAFFEE,    1816-1900. 

practice  and  then  went  to  Paris, 
France,  where  he  remained  fif- 
teen months,  perfecting  his  medi- 
cal education. 

In  1857  Dr.  Chaffee  came  to  To- 
lono  and  located  there  permantly. 
He  built  the  fourth  frame  house 
in  that  place  and  laid  the  first  side- 
walk. He  was  also  the  first  post- 
master of  the  village;  his  house  at 
first  and  later  his  office  served 
their  places  in  turn  as  the  village 
postoffice.  In  1900  Dr.  Chaffee 
died  at  his  home  in  Tolono  at  the 
advanced  age  of  84  years,  making 
him  at  the  time  of  his  decease  the 
oldest  physician  in  Champaign 
County. 


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Dr.  A.  Catron  was  born  in  Clark 
County,  Illinois,  October  19,  1826, 
studied  medicine  and  attended 
lectures  at  Louisville,  Ky.  In 
1856,  when  thirty  years  of  age,  he 
located  at  Sadorus,  where  he  has 
since  lived.  In  1896,  forty  years 
after  arriving  in  Sadorus,  he  re- 
tired from  practice.  Dr.  Catron 
was  the  first  physician  to  locate  in 
Sadorus. 


DR.   JACOB   D.   CHAMBERS. 

Dr.  Jacob  G.  Chambers  was 
born  in  Tompkins  County,  New 
York,  in  1842.  He  obtained  his 
English  education  in  the  public 
schools  and  this  was  supplemented 
by  a  two  years'  course  in  Hobert 
College.  In  1864  he  graduated 


from  Geneva  Medical  College, 
New  York.  Immediately  after 
graduation  he  entered  the  service 
as  Surgeon  of  the  looth  Pennsyl- 
vania Infantry,  in  which  he  served 
till  the  war  of  the  Rebellion  ended. 
In  1869  he  located  at  Sadorus  for 
the  practice  of  medicine.  But  in 
a  few  years  he  practically  aban- 
doned this  for  the  much  more  re- 
munerative business  of  farming 
and  stock  raising  that  for  many 
years  he  has  followed  most  suc- 
cessfully. Dr.  Chambers  has  rep- 
resented his  Township  on  the 
Board  of  Supervisors  most  accept- 
ably to  all. 

Dr.  Daniel  A.  Cheever  was  born 
in  Providence,  R.  I.,  July  26,  1827; 
studied  medicine  and  graduated 
from  New  York  Homeopathic 
Medical  College  in  1865.  He  lo- 
cated in  Champaign  City  in  1870 
where  he  practiced  till  1877,  when 
he  removed  to  Peoria.  At  the  last 
named  location  he  practiced  his 
profession  till  failing  health  com- 
pelled him  to  retire.  Dr.  Cheever 
died  in  Champaign,  111.,  Septem- 
ber i,  1890. 

Dr.  Job  S.  Coggeshall  was 
born  in  Wayne  County,  Indiana, 
in  1839,  studied  medicine  and  dur- 
ing the  civil  war  served  as  Hos- 
pital Steward  and  Assistant  Sur- 
geon in  the  2nd  Indiana  Cavalry. 
In  1871  he  located  at  Ogden  and 
practiced  there  a  few  years,  when 
he  removed  to  Indiana  and  prac- 
ticed medicine  in  that  state  for  a 


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time,  but,  liking  Illinois  better, 
he  in  1884  returned  to  Ogden, 
where  he  practiced  till  his  death, 
September  14,  1902. 


DR.   W.   A.   CONKEY,   1820-1907. 

Dr.  William  A.  Conkey  was 
born  December  6,  1820,  at  Charle- 
mont,  Massachusetts,  in  the  Berk- 
shire hills  region.  At  the  age  of 
ten  years  he  removed  with  his  par- 
ents to  the  then  far  West  and  fin- 
ally settled  in  Champaign  County. 
As  a  boy  Dr.  Conkey  went 
through  all  the  privations  and 
hard  experiences  of  the  pioneers 
in  the  first  half  of  the  nineteenth 
century.  He  spent  most  of  his 
time  working  on  the  farm  and  dur- 
ing winter  months  attended  the 
nearest  log  school  house,  but  by 


making  the  best  use  of  his  oppor- 
tunities managed  to  acquire  a  fair 
education.  He  began  the  study  of 
medicine  at  an  early  age  and  at- 
tended lectures  at  Louisville,  Ky. 
He  located  in  old  Homer  in  1843 
and  continued  the  practice  of  his 
profession  till  1850,  when  he  ex- 
changed it  for  the  more  lucrative 
business  of  .farming  and  stock 
raising.  Some  years  since  lie  re- 
tired to  the  village  of  Homer 
where  his  death  occurred,  Decem- 
ber 2,  1907.  See  also  pioneer  doc- 
tors. 


Dr.  G.  E.  Cogswell  was  born 
January  6,  1849,  at  Towanda,  Pa., 
and  while  in  infancy  removed  with 
his  parents  to  Carroll  Co.,  111. 
He  spent  his  boyhood  days  work- 
ing on  the  farm  and  attended  the 
neighboring  schools.  Subse- 
quently he  attended  Mount  Car- 
roll Seminary  and  Painsville 
(Ohio)  Academy.  Deciding  to 
study  medicine  he  matriculated  at 
Hahnemann  College,  Chicago, 
from  which  he  graduated  in  1873. 
He  first  located  at  Cedar  Rapids, 
Iowa,  next  changed  his  residence 
to  Waukegan,  111.,  where  he  en- 
gaged in  practice  till  1902,  when 
he  removed  to  Champaign  City 
and  has  since  been  actively  occu- 
pied in  professional  business. 

Dr.  Chas.  J.  Cooper  graduated 
from  Cincinnati  Eclectic  Medical 
Institute,  1902,  and  located  at 


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Penfield,  111.,  same  year.  Died 
from  blood  poisoning  May  22, 
1904. 


DR.   JAMES   CORE,   1822-1888. 

Dr.  James  Core  was  born  in 
Ross  County,  Ohio,  December  19, 
1822.  He  got  his  education  in 
the  common  schools  and  at  an 
early  age  began  teaching  and  in 
this  way  earned  enough  money  to 
attend  lectures  at  the  Medical  Col- 
lege of  Ohio  during  the  winter  of 
1845-6.  At  a  later  date  he  grad- 
uated from  this  school.  He  prac- 
ticed his  profession  for  a  time  in 
Ohio,  but  in  1853  removed  to  Illi- 
nois and  located  near  Homer, 
where  he  soon  built  up  a  large 
practice.  At  this  time  there  was 
no  doctor  to  the  east  nearer  than 


Danville;  to  the  west  none  nearer 
than  Urbana,  while  to  the  south 
and  north  the  field  was  practically 
unlimited.  Consequently  his  rides 
were  very  long  and  the  labor  in- 
cident to  attending  to  his  profes- 
sional duties  arduous  in  the  ex- 
treme. Dr.  Core  was  a  local  Meth- 
odist preacher,  an  earnest  temper- 
ance advocate,  a  life-long  Repub- 
lican and  withal  a  good  extempo- 
raneous speaker;  the  result  was 
that  he  could  preach  a  sermon,  de- 
liver a  temperance  address  or 
ringing  political  speech  with 
equal  facility.  In  1878  Dr.  Core 
was  elected  one  of  the  Legislators 
from  this  County.  A  few  years 
later  his  health  began  to  fail  and 
April  29,  1888,  he  died  at  his  home 
in  Homer. 

Dr.  C.  L.  Crane  located  in  Ma- 
homet some  years  prior  to  the 
civil  war.  Died  in  1856  from  ac- 
cidental blood  poisoning.  See 
violent  deaths  and  accidents. 

Dr.  Jacob  Culver  was  born  in 
the  year  1835  in  Butler  County, 
Ohio.  When  but  three  years  of 
age  he  removed  with  his  parents 
to  Indiana,  wher.e  he  grew  to  man- 
hood, meanwhile  receiving  his  ed- 
ucation in  the  common  schools. 
When  a  very  young  man  he  began 
the  study  of  medicine  and  later 
graduated  from  Rush  Medical 
College,  Chicago.  Dr.  Culver's 
first  location  was  Clarksville,  Ind., 
but  after  a  time  he  removed  to  Il- 
linois and  in  1858  located  at  Ma- 


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DR.    JACOB    CULVER,    1835-1880.          DR.   HENRY   E.   GUSHING,   1854-1907. 


hornet  where  he  soon  built  up  a 
good  practice.  During  the  civil 
war  Dr.  Culver  enlisted  in  the  7ist 
Illinois  Infantry  as  Hospital  stew- 
ard, and  owing  to  the  indisposition 
of  the  chief  surgeon  of  the  regi- 
ment, attended  to  most  of  the 
medical  wants  of  the  regiment. 
Dr.  Culver,  at  the  expiration  of  his 
term  of  service,  returned  to  Ma- 
homet and  resumed  his  practice 
and  continued  in  active  work  till 
towards  the  end  of  the  eighties, 
when  his  health  began  to  give  way, 
and  finally  in  1890  he  died. 

Dr.  Henry  E.  dishing  was  born 
in  Ashburnham,  Mass.,  Nov.  30, 
1854,  and  received  his  preliminary 


education  in  the  public  schools 
and  Westfield  High  School.  He 
graduated  from  Dartmouth  Col- 
lege in  1882  and  the  same  year  en- 
tered the  Chicago  Medical  Col- 
lege, now  the  Medical  Depart- 
ment of  Northwestern  University, 
from  which  he  received  the  de- 
gree of  M.  D.  in  1884.  •  The  same 
year  he  located  for  the  practice  of 
his  profession  at  Champaign,  111., 
where  he  soon  built  up  a  .large 
professional  business  which  he  re- 
tained till  the  date  of  his  death, 
August  n,  1907. 

Dr.  Gushing  was  at  all  times  en- 
terprising and  energetic  and  by 
his  own  efforts  defrayed  the  great- 


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er  part  of  the  expense  of  his  edu- 
cation. As  a  practitioner  of  med- 
icine he  was  noted  for  his  enter- 


prise, aggressiveness  and  readiness 
to  maintain  a  high  standard  of  pro- 
fessional ethics. 


DR.    ALEXANDER    T.    DARRAH,  1836-1889. 


Dr.  Alexander  T.  Darrah  was 
born  at  Delaware,  Ohio,  March 
17,  1836.  Two  years  later  he  re- 
moved with  his  parents  to  Pike 
County,  where  he  grew  to  man- 
hood. He  obtained  his  education 


in  the  common  schools  and  when 
a  young  man  taught.  Later  he 
began  the  study  of  medicine  and  in 
1865  graduated  from  Rush  Medi- 
cal College,  Chicago.  The  same 
year  that  he  graduated  he  located 


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at  Tolono  and  practiced  his  pro- 
fession there  continuously  till 
1883,  when  he  removed  to  Bloom - 
ington,  111.  In  his  new  location 
he  was  actively  engaged  in  prac- 
tice till  his  death  that  occurred  in 
September,  1889. 

Dr.  Darrah  was  a  man  of  strik- 
ing personal  appearance;  was 
large,  well-proportioned  and  was 
always  well  dressed.  He  stood 
very  high  in  Masonic  circles,  was 
a  good  extemporaneous  speaker 
and  in  his  day  was  perhaps 
one  of  the  best  presiding  officers 
in  the  state.  In  1882,  when  resid- 
ing at  Tolono,  he  was  elected 
president  of  the  Illinois  State  Med- 
ical Society,  an  honor  that  thus 
far  no  other  member  of  the  Cham 
paign  County  Medical  Society  has 
received. 

Dr.  Amos  Dillon  was  born 
near  Ridge  Farm,  Vermilion  Co., 
111.,  Feb.  26,  1840.  Here  he  grew 
to  young  manhood  and  during  his 
boyhood  days  his  time  was  divided 
between  farm  work  and  attendance 
upon  the  neighborhood  schools. 
Later  he  attended  Onarga  Acad- 
emy at  Onarga,  111.,  and  finally  be- 
came a  student  of  medicine.  He 
graduated  from  Indiana  Medical 
College  in  1878  and  soon  after  lo- 
cated for  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession in  Staunton  Township, 
Champaign  County,  111.  Unfortu- 
nately when  he  had  given  but  five 
years  to  professional  work  his  use- 


fulness was  ended  by  death  which 
occurred  April  3,   1883. 


DR.   WILLIAM   DILLON. 

Dr.  William  Dillon  was  born 
near  Ridge  Farm,  Vermilion  Co., 
111.,  March  27,  1849,  anc^  while  yet 
a  small  boy  removed  with  his  par- 
ents to  Iroquois  County.  His 
early  years  were  spent  in  farm 
work  and  attendance  upon  the 
country  schools.  After  reaching 
young  manhood  he  devoted  some 
time  to  teaching  school.  Later 
he  decided  to  study  medicine  and 
was  part  of  the  time  in  the  office 
with  his  brother.  Dr.  Amos  Dillon 
of  Champaign  County,  and  part  of 
his  student  days  he  spent  with 
Dr.  Gaston  of  Ash  Grove,  Iro- 


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quois  County.  He  finally  gradu- 
ated in  medicine  from  the  Ohio 
Medical  College,  Cincinnati,  in 
1882.  The  same  year  he  located 
for  the  practice  of  his  profession 
at  Thomasboro,  Champaign  Coun- 
ty, where  he  remained  in  active 
professional  work  till  1900  when 
he  took  a  post  graduate  course  in 
Chicago.  He  then  removed  to 
Urbana,  where  he  has  even  since 
been  engaged  in  practice. 

Dr.  Franklin  at  the  breaking 
out  of  the  Civil  war  left  his  prac- 
tice in  Champaign  Co.  and  joined 
an  Ohio  Regiment  as  surgeon. 
His  subsequent  history  is  un- 
known. 

Dr.  Ezra  H.  Ferris  was  born  in 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  April  18,  1821. 
In  young  manhood  he  studied 
medicine  and  in  1846  graduated 
from  the  Medical  College  of  Ohio. 
He  practiced  medicine  in  Cincin- 
nati for  a  considerable  period  and 
during  this  time  was  four  years  a 
member  of  the  City  Board  of 
Health.  In  1864  Dr.  Ferris  aban- 
doned the  practice  of  medicine  and 
removed  to  Illinois  and  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  lived  on  a  farm  in 
Champaign  County.  In  1887  he 
removed  to  Champaign  City, 
where  he  continued  to  reside  till 
his  death,  April  10,  1904. 

Dr.  John  T.  Fugate  was  born 
June  15,  1830  at  Wytheville, 
Wythe  Co.,  Virginia.  While  very 


DR.   JOHN   T.   FUGATB. 

young  removed  with  parents  first 
to  Missouri  and  later  to  Illinois. 
Was  raised  on  a  farm  near  Quincy, 
Illinois,  where  his  time  was  alter- 
nated between  farm  work  and  at- 
tendance at  the  neighborhood 
schools  and  higher  educational  in- 
stitutions at  Barry  and  Quincy, 
111.  In  early  manhood  entered  up- 
on the  study  of  medicine  and  ob- 
tained his  M.  D.  degree  from  Mis- 
souri Medical  College  in  1857. 
Practiced  medicine  in  St.  Louis, 
Mo.,  till  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil 
War,  then  for  varying  periods 
was  located  at  the  following  towns 
in  Illinois,  viz.,  Pleasant  Hill, 
Rockport,  Summer  Hill  and  El- 


Dora.  In  1867  he  came  to  Ur- 
bana,  111.,  where  he  has  since  been 
engaged  in  practice. 

Dr.  Fulkerson,  first  physician  to 
locate  in  Champaign  County.  See 
pioneer  doctors  in  County. 

Dr.  M.  Garst  was  born  in  Vir- 
ginia Jan.  17,  1815,  began  the 
study  of  medicine  when  very 
young  and  at  the  age  of  22  grad- 
uated from  Jefferson  Medical  Col- 
lege, Philadelphia.  He  located  at 
Dayton,  Ohio,  and  for  many  years 
practiced  medicine  in  that  city. 
Just  before  the  breaking  out  of  the 
civil  war  he  removed  to  Illinois 
and  had  his  home  in  Champaign 
City.  Upon  the  organization  of 
^e  71  st  Illinois  Infantry  he  en- 
tered that  organization  as  surgeon 
with  the  rank  of  Major  and  served 
till  the  time  of  the  regiment  ex- 
pired. At  the  termination  of  the 
war  in  1865  he  removed  from 
Champaign  and  his  death  occurred 
at  Coon  Rapids,  Iowa,  Oct.  5, 
1901. 

Dr.  J.  H.  Gardiner  was  born 
Feb.  17,  1848,  died  Aug.  22,  1902, 
at  Mahomet.  He  was  a  na- 
tive of  New  Jersey  and  when  a 
mere  lad  removed  to  Illinois  with 
his  parents.  In  1865,  when  but 
fifteen  years  of  age,  he  enlisted  in 
the  1 54th  Illinois  Infantry  and 
served  till  the  war  of  the  rebellion 
ended.  In  1872  Dr.  Gardiner 
graduated  from  Rush  Medical 
College  and  at  once  located  at  Ma- 


DR.  JOHN   H.   GARDINER,   1848-1902. 

hornet  for  the  purpose  of  practic- 
ing his  profession,  and  soon  built 
up  a  good  business.  Dr.  John 
H.  Gardiner  was  a  son  of 
Dr.  John  D.  Gardiner,  late 
an  octogenarian  of  Farmer  City, 
but  many  years  ago  a  Mahomet 
physician. 

Dr.  A.  D.  Gillum  was  born  in 
Adams  County,  Illinois,  August 
29,  1846.  He  was  educated  in  the 
common  schools,  and  when  a 
young  man  taught  school.  Stud- 
ied medicine  and  later  graduated 
from  a  Medical  College  at  Keo- 
kuk,  Iowa.  Located  at  Sadorus  in 
1877  and  practiced  there  till  a  few 


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weeks   before   his     death   that   oc- 
curred June  25,  1890. 

Dr.  William  Miles  Goodwin 
was  born  in  Ohio  about  1825.  At- 
tended medical  lectures  at  the 
Medical  College  of  Ohio;  came  to 
Illinois  and  located  first  at  St. 
Joseph,  practiced  there  for  a  year 
when  he  changed  his  location  to 
Urbana.  At  the  latter  place  he 
formed  a  partnership  with  Dr.  C. 
A.  Thompson,  which  lasted  till  the 
latter  entered  the  army  in  1861. 
Dr.  Goodwin  had  a  large  practice 
in  Urbana  during  the  sixties.  !!•,• 
remained  there  in  practice  till 
about  1876  or  1877.  when  he  re- 
moved to  Kansas,  where  he  died 
about  1898.  Dr.  Goodwin  was  a 
well  posted  man  and  a  good  prac- 
titioner of  medicine. 

Dr.  John  M.  Hadden  was  born 
in  Pennsylvania  in  the  year  1842. 
In  the  fall  of  1861  he  enlisted  in 
the  67th  Pennsylvania  and  served 
till  the  war  ended  four  years  later. 
At  the  battle  of  Winchester  he  was 
captured  and  for  two  months  was 
confined  in  Libby  Pft^on  and 
Belle  Isle.  After  the  close  of  the 
war  young  Hadden  entered  upon 
the  study  of  medicine  and  con- 
cluding that  the  west  was  a  tempt- 
ing field  came  to  Illinois  and  in 
1872  located  at  Seymour,  where 
he  soon  built  up  a  good  practice 
that  he  yet  attends  to  industrious- 
ly. 


DR.   JOHN    M.   HADDEX,   1812-1892. 

Dr.  Lyman  Ilall  was  born  at 
Hancock,  Massachusetts,  Febru- 
ary 12,  1818.  Came  west  in  early 
life  and  studied  medicine  in  young 
manhood.  He  lived  at  La  Salle 
for  a  long  period  and  was  mayor 
of  that  city  for  two  years.  During 
the  civil  war  he  for  a  time  served 
as  Assistant  Surgeon  of  the  63rd 
Illinois  Infantry.  Meeting  with 
some  unexpected  business  losses 
not  long  after  the  war.  Dr.  Hall 
concluded  to  come  to  Champaign 
County.  This  he  did  in  1867,  lo- 
cating near  Savoy.  Here  he  car- 
ried on  farming  and  practiced  med- 
icine for  twenty  years  till  1887, 
when  he  removed  to  Champaign 
City,  where  he  died  February  u, 


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DR.    LYMAN    HALL,    1818-1892. 

1892,     lacking     hut     one     day     of 
rounding  out   seventy-four  years. 

Dr.  Abbie  G.  Hall  was  born  in 
Felicity,  Clairmont  County,  Ohio, 
and  while  yet  a  child  removed  to 
Champaign  County  in  1860.  She 
acquired  a  good  education  in  the 
public  schools  and  for  many  years 
devoted  her  time  to  teaching. 
While  serving  in  this  capacity  she 
was  the  author  of  two  or  three  ele- 
mentary school  books.  Late  in  the 
eighties  she  began  the  study  of 
medicine  and  in  1890  graduated 
from  Hahnemann  Medical  College, 
Chicago.  Immediately  after  grad- 
uation she  located  in  Champaign 
City,  where  she  practiced  medi- 


cine till  her  death'  in  September, 
1898.  At  the  time  of  her  decease 
Dr.  Hall  was  a  member  of  the 
Medical  Staff  of  the  Julia  F. 
Burnham  Hospital. 


DR.  J.  J.  HANMORE. 

Dr.  J.  J.  Hanmore  was  born 
March  20,  1854,  at  Cambridge, 
Ind.,  and  when  a  young  child  re- 
moved with  his  parents  to  a  farm 
where  his  earlier  days  were  spent 
doing  farm  work  and  attending 
the  neighborhood  schools. 

Upon  reaching  young  manhood 
he  began  the  study  of  medicine, 
and  entered  the  Kentucky  School 
of  Medicine  from  which  he  grad- 
uated in  1884.  His  first  location 
was  Landessville,  Ind.,  where  he 


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remained  for  a  number  of  years. 
For  a  short  period  he  also  prac- 
ticed at  Marion,  Ind.  In  1898  he 
removed  to  Maiden,  111.,  where 
he  was  engaged  in  professional 
work  till  1905,  when  he  came  to 
Urbana  and  has  since  been  occu- 
pied in  active  practice. 


DR.    JAMES    C.    HARMON..    1840-1905. 

Dr.  James  C.  Harmon  \vas  born 
January  19,  1840,  at  Milton,  Ver- 
mont. He^grew  up  on  a  farm  and 
got  his  education  in  the  public 
schools.  In  1862  he  enlisted  in  the 
1 3th  Vermont,  a  regiment  that 
was  afterwards  a  part  of  General 
Stannard's  celebrated  brigade. 
This  brigade  had  not  a  little  to  do 
in  saving  the  clay  for  the  Union 


Army  in  the  third  day's  fight  at 
Gettysburg,  when  Pickett's  divis- 
ion made  its  terrible  charge  in  a 
desperate  effort  at  breaking  the 
Union  center.  Dr.  Harmon  was 
at  Gettysburg  and  saw  much  hard 
service  during  his  three  years 
in  the  Army  of  the  Potomac. 

Before  enlisting  Dr.  Harmon 
had  studied  medicine  for  about  a 
year.  After  leaving  the  army  he 
resumed  his  studies  and  gradu- 
ated from  the  Medical  Department 
of  the  University  of  Vermont  in 
1866. 

N.ext  year  he  entered  upon  the 
practice  of  medicine  and  in  1874 
removed  to  Rantoul,  where  he 
practiced  till  his  death,  Aug.  i, 
1906.  Dr.  Harmon  at  the  time  of 
his  decease,  was  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  United  States  Surgeons 
of  Champaign  County  for  the  Ex- 
amination of  Pensioners. 

Recently  a  medical  friend  of  Dr. 
Harmon  said  of  him  that  "he  had 
done  more  for  humanity  and  less 
for  himself  than  any  one  else  he 
ever  knew." 

Dr.  J.  F.  Harris  was  born 
March  31,  1852  in  Spencer  Co., 
Ind.,  where  he  grew  up  on  a  farm 
and  obtained  his  preliminary  edu- 
cation in  the  public  schools.  Up- 
on reaching  young  manhood  he 
entered  upon  the  study  of  medi- 
cine and  graduated  from  the  Ken- 
tucky Medical  College  in  1877. 
He  located  for  the  practice  of  his 
profession  at  St.  Anthony,  Ind., 


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DR.  J.  F.  HARRIS. 


where  he  remained  till  1883,  when 
he  removed  to  Ogden,  111.,  where 
he  has  ever  since  been  busy  an- 
swering professional  calls. 

Dr.  George  W.  Hartman  was 
born  in  Davidson  County,  North 
Carolina,  April  16,  1827.  When 
but  a  child  of  four  years  George 
W.  removed  with  his  parents  to 
Indiana  and  when  but  a  mere  boy 
he  began  the  study  of  medicine 
and  when  twenty-one  years  of  age 
entered  upon  its  practice  in  Foun- 
tain County,  Indiana.  In  1853  he 
removed  to  Sidney,  111.,  and  for  a 
period  of  about  twenty-eight  years 
thereafter  he  was  kept  busy  with 
his  large  professional  business. 

Early  in   1881     Dr.     Hartman's 


DR.  GEORGE  W.  HARTMAN, 
1827-1881. 

health  began  to  fail  and  October 
12  of  that  year  he  died.  He  was  a 
genial,  popular  man  and  his  death 
was  greatly  deplored  by  a  large 
circle  of  friends  and  patrons. 

Dr.  C.  C.  Hawes.  See  Pioneer 
Doctors,  Champaign  Co. 

Dr.  Apollis  R.  Hess  was  born 
in  Hendricks  County,  Indiana. 
February  15,  1840.  He  removed 
to  Illinois  when  quite  young  with 
his  parents  and  received  his  educa- 
tion in  the  common  schools.  He 
enlisted  in  the  /ist  Illinois  Infan- 
try and  served  till  his  time  ex- 
pired, and  later  joined  the  i37th 
Illinois  Infantry  and  served  his 


DR.    HARTWELL    C.    HOWARD, 


time  out  in  that  organization.  Af- 
ter the  war  ended  he  turned  his 
attention  to  the  study  of  medicine 
and  later  graduated  from  the  Med- 
ical College  of  Ohio,  Cincinnati. 
About  1875  he  located  at  Sidney 
and  continued  in  practice  there 
till  a  while  before  his  death  that 
occurred  May  6,  1897. 

Dr.  Thomas  M.  Hess  was  born 
at  New  Albany,  Indiana,  Septem- 
ber 22,  1819.  Dr.  Hess  acquired 
his  preliminary  education  in  the 
common  subscription  schools  of 
his  boyhood  days,  but  later  had 
the  advantages  of  a  short  course 
at  a  Seminary  located  at  Charles- 
ton, Ind.  For  a  time  after  reach- 
ing his  majority  he  engaged  in 
mercantile  and  other  business  pur- 
suits, meanwhile,  in  the  year  1840, 
he  had  removed  to  Westfield, 
Clark  County,  Illinois.  Some 
years  later  he  became  interested 
in  medicine  and  began  its  study. 
He  took  his  first  course  of  lectures 
at  Starling  Medical  College,  Co- 
lumbus, Ohio,  and  in  later  years 
graduated  at  Rush  Medical  Col- 
lege, Chicago.  In  the  spring  of 
1863  Dr.  Hess  located  at  Homer 
•and  for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a 
century  thereafter  was  busy  at- 
tending to  the  wants  of  the  sick. 
Early  in  the  eighties  he  removed 
to  Berwick,  Warren  County,  Illi- 
nois and  practiced  medicine  there 
till  his  death  a  few  vears  since. 


Dr.  Hess  was  a  man  of  dignified 
bearing  and  for  many  years  was  a 
preacher  of  the  Christian,  or 
Campbellite,  denomination.  He 
had  three  sons  who  were  physi- 
cians, Apollis,  who  practiced  in 
Sidney,  and  Wm.  H.,  who  later 
located  in  Chicago,  both  of  whom 
are  dead,  and  Smith  Hess,  who  is 
located  in  the  west. 

Dr.  H.  C.  Howard  was  born  at 
Gates  (now  within  the  city  limits 
of  Rochester),  Xew  York,  July  12, 
1829.  When  Dr.  Howard  was  a 
lad  of  fourteen  he  removed  with 
his  father  to  Columbus,  O.,  where 
he  lived  till  young  manhood,  when 
he  came  to  Leroy,  McLean  Coun- 
ty, Illinois.  He  received  his  gen- 
eral education  in  the  public 
schools  of  Xew  York  and  Ohio, 
and  his  medical  education  at  Star- 
ling Medical  College,  Columbus, 
from  which  he  graduated  in  1850. 
Dr.  Howard  began  the  practice  of 
medicine  in  Champaign  in  1855, 
fifty-four  years  ago.  He  is  en- 
titled to  the  honor  of  being  one  of 
the  oldest  men  in  Champaign 
county  in  the  active  practice  of  his 
profession,  though  Dr.  S.  S.  Salis- 
bury of  Tolono,  is  his  close  sec- 
ond, as  he  is  but  ten  days  young- 
er than  Dr.  Howard.  Dr.  Howard 
is  local  surgeon  for  the  Wabash 
railroad  and  ex-president  of  the 
Staff  of  the  Julia  F.  Burnham  hos- 
pital. 


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DR.    CHARLES    A.V  HUNT,    1819-1863. 

Dr.  Charles  A.  Hunt  was  born 
at  Trenton,  Xe\v  Jersey,  April  15, 
1819.  His  father  died  when 
Charles  A.  was  but  thirteen  years 
of  age  and  joining  some  friends 
the  lad  emigrated  to  ( )hio,  and 
ever  after  made  his  own  way  in 
the  world.  Notwithstanding  his 
being  thus  thrown  upon  his  own 
resources  he  succeeded  in  early 
acquiring  a  good  English  and 
classical  education.  He  also  stud- 
ied medicine  and  graduated  from 
the  Medical  College  of  ( )hio  in 
1845.  He  came  to  Urbana  in  1855 
and  for  a  time  engaged  in  the  drug 
business. 

Upon  the  breaking  out  of  the 
civil  war  in  1861  Dr.  Hunt  was 
commissioned  Surgeon  of  the 
1 26th  Illinois  Infantry. 


His  regiment  participated  in  the 
memorable  siege  of  Vicksburg, 
during  which  Dr.  Hunt's  duties 
in  caring  for  the  sick  were  most 
arduous  and  his  location  being  at 
Haines'  Bluff  on  the  Yazoo  in- 
volved especial  exposure  to  ma- 
laria. The  result  was  he  fell  seri- 
ously sick  and  died  at  his  post  of 
duty  August  2,  1863,  twenty-nine 
clays  after  Vicksburg  fell. 

By  those  who  knew  him  Dr. 
Hunt  is  spoken  of  in  the  highest 
terms.  He  is  said  to  have  been 
thoughtful,  studious  and  a  writer 
of  no  mean  ability. 

Dr.  David  Jennings  was  born  in 
the  state  of  Pennsylvania  May  10, 
1836,  and  removed  to  Ohio  when 
sixteen  years  of  age.  He  received 
his  education  in  the  common 
schools  of  Pennsylvania  and  Ohio, 
afterwards  taught  school,  and 
meanwhile  began  the  study  of 
medicine.  Early  in  the  sixties  he 
removed  to  Illinois  and  became  a 
resident  of  Champaign  County, 
from  where  he  enlisted  in  the  2nd 
Illinois  Cavalry  and  at  the  end  of 
the  war  resumed  his  studies. 
Later  he  graduated  from  the  St. 
Louis  Medical  College,  St.  Louis, 
Mo.  In  1866  Dr.  Jennings  locat- 
ed at  Old  St.  Joseph,  but  upon  the 
building  of  what  is  now  the  Big 
Four  railway,  removed  to  New 
St.  Joseph  early  in  1870,  where  he 
continued  in  practice  till  1879, 
when  he  changed  his  loca- 
tion to  Tolono.  Two  years  later 


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he  removed  to  Sidney.  Mean- 
while his  health  had  been  failing 
and  in  July,  1881,  he  died  at  Sid- 
ney. His  remains  were  taken  to 
the  cemetery  at  Old  St.  Joseph 
for  interment  and  there  he  lies 
buried  in  the  midst  of  a  farming 
community  in  which  he  had  long- 
practiced. 


DR.  CHARLES  B.  JOHNSON. 

Dr.  Charles  B.  Johnson  was 
born  on  a  farm  near  Pocahontas, 
Bond  Co.,  111.,  Oct.  8,  1843.  His 
boyhood  days  were  divided  be- 
tween work  on  the  farm  in  sum- 
mer and  attendance  upon  the  pub- 
lic schools  in  winter.  In  1862  he 
enlisted  in  the  i^oth  111.  Infantry 
and  served  till  the  close  of  the 
Civil  War,  three  years  later.  About 
half  his  time  he  was  a  private  sol- 


dier and  the  remainder  Hospital 
Steward  of  the  regiment  where  his 
medical  studies  began.  He  is  a 
graduate  of  the  Medical  College 
of  Ohio,  Cincinnati,  and  his  first 
location  was  at  Chatham,  Sanga- 
mon  Co.,  111.  He  has  practiced 
his  profession  in  Champaign 
County  since  1871  and  in  Cham- 
paign City  since  1879.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Illinois  State  Board 
of  Health  for  eight  years  and  from 
1899  to  1902  served  as  its  presi- 
dent. 

Dr.  Samuel  W.  Kincaid  was 
born  July  15,  1823,  and  graduated 
in  medicine  from  the  Medical  Col- 
lege of  Ohio  in  1853.  He  prac- 
ticed medicine  at  Tolono  for  a 
time  and  in  1855  located  at  Cham- 
paign (then  West  Urbana)  for  the 
practice  of  his  profession.  Later 
he  removed  from  Champaign,  re- 
tired from  active  practice  and  died 
May  i,  1887.  One  of  Dr.  Kin- 
caid's  professional  cards  was 
shown  the  writer  that  was  printed 
in  1855.  Following  is  a  copy. 

S.  W.  KINCAID,  M.  D. 

Physician  and  Surgeon, 

West  Urbana. 

Office  one  door  west 
of  the  Doane  house. 

Dr.  Edwin  A.  Kratz  was  born  in 
Plumsteadville,  Bucks  County, 
Pennsylvania,  July  12,  1844.  He 
received  his  education  in  the  pub- 


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DR.    EDWIN    A.    KRATZ. 


lie  schools.  He  enlisted  in  the 
198th  Pennsylvania  Infantry  and 
saw  much  exceptionally  hard  ser- 
vice in  Grant's  closing  campaign 
against  Lee  that  brought  the  end 
of  the  war.  Near  Dinwiddie 
Court  House  Dr.  Kratz  was  most 
seriously  wounded  by  a  musket 
ball  that  he  received  in  his  lungs 
and  that  passed  through  both 
arms.  Not  long  after  the  war  he 
took  up  the  study  of  medicine 
and  in  1869  graduated  from  the 
Medical  Department  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  Pennsylvania.  Immedi- 
ately after  graduation  he  took  up 
the  practice  of  his  profession  at 


Champaign.  For  many  years 
Dr.  Kratz  has  been  United 
States  Surgeon  for  Pensions  and 
for  a  long  period  was  Secretary  of 
the  Pension  Board  and  in  this  ca- 
pacity did  most  efficient  service. 

Dr.  Kratz  has  held  a  number  of 
important  offices.  For  several 
terms  he  has  represented  his  town- 
ship on  the  Board  of  Supervisors 
and  from  1894  to  1898  was  Coun- 
ty Treasurer.  He  is  moreover 
prominent  in  Masonic  circles. 


DR.   JOSEPH   M.   LAWSON. 

Dr.  Joseph  M.  Lawson  was 
born  in  Armstrong  Co.,  Penn., 
Apr.  i,  1858.  He  grew  up  on 
a  farm  and  as  leisure  afforded 
attended  the  country  schools,  and 


later  Dayton  Union  College.  Up- 
on reaching  young  manhood  he 
entered  the  office  of  his  uncle  Dr. 
Wesley  Lawson  at  Homer,  111., 
and  began  the  study  of  medicine. 
He  graduated  in  medicine  at  the 
University  of  Michigan  in  1885 
and  the  same  year  located  at  Sid- 
ney, 111.,  where  he  has  ever  since 
been  actively  engaged  in  practice. 


DR.  A.   M.  LINDLEY. 


Dr.  A.  M.  Lindley  was  born  in 
Tuscarawas  Co.  Ohio,  Sept.  10, 
1856  and  while  yet  an  infant  re- 
moved with  his  parents  to  Urbana, 
111.,  where  he  received  his  prelim- 
inary education  in  the  public 
schools.  Subsequently  he  at- 
tended the  University  of  Illinois 
and  later  entered  the  Cincinnati 
College  of  Medicine  and  Surgery 


from  which  he  graduated  in  1880. 
He  at  once  became  associated 
with  his  father  in  the  practice  of 
medicine  at  Urbana  and  has  ever 
since  been  actively  engaged  in 
professional  work. 


DR.   MAHLON   LINDLEY. 

Dr.  Mahlon  Lindley  was  born 
July  22,  1833,  at  Fredericktown, 
Ohio.  In  the  spring  of  1857  ne 
located  in  Urbana  and  now,  al- 
though entering  on  his  fifty-sec- 
ond year  of  practice  in  Champaign 
County,  is  nearly  as  active  as 
when  he  was  forty  years  of  age. 
Dr.  Lindley  is  local  surgeon  for 
the  Big  Four  railway,  a  position 
he  has  held  since  the  building  of 
that  road  forty  years  ago. 


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Dr.  James  H.  Lyon.     See  Pion- 
eer  Doctors   Champaign  County. 


DR.    J.    D.    MAXDEVILLE. 

Dr.  John  D.  Mandeville  was 
1)orn  December  18,  1844,  near  the 
village  of  Ovid,  Seneca  County, 
New  York.  When  fourteen  years 
of  age  he  removed  with  his  par- 
ents to  Champaign  County,  Illi- 
nois, where  he  has  since  resided. 
He  attended  the  public  schools 
and  when  older  taught  school. 
Upon  the  breaking  out  of  the  civil 
war  he  served  for  a  time  in  the 
67th  Illinois  Infantry;  also  was  a 
soldier  in  the  I33rd  Illinois  Infan- 
try. After  returning  from  the 
army  Dr.  Mandeville  began  the 
studv  of  medicine  and  subse- 


quently graduated  at  Rush  Medi- 
cal College,  Chicago. 

In  March,  1868,  he  located  at 
Philo  and  did  a  good  business  till 
he  removed  to  Champaign  in  1900, 
lacking  but  one  year  of  rounding 
out  a  third  of  a  century  where  he 
first  began  to  respond  to  sick  calls. 
Dr.  Mandeville  is  now  a  resident 
of  Champaign  and  is  actively  en- 
gaged in  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession. For  some  time  he  has 
affiliated  with  the  Prohibition 
party  and  in  1898  was  that  party's 
candidate  for  state  senator. 


DR.  JOHN  MARTEN. 


Dr.  John  Marten  was  born  at 
Carbondale,  111.,  April  3,  1857. 
Received  his  preliminary  educa- 
tion in  the  public  schools  and  at 
the  Southern  State  Normal  Uni- 


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versity,  Carbondale,  from  which 
he  graduated  in  1883.  For  a  con- 
siderable period  he  devoted  him- 
self to  teaching  and  during  this 
time  filled  a  number  of  important 
and  responsible  educational  posi- 
tions. Meanwhile  he  became  an 
earnest  student  of  entomology  and 
for  a  number  of  years  was  assist- 
ant in  this  Department  to  Prof.  S. 
A.  Forbes  at  the  University  of  Il- 
linois. Later  he  entered  upon  the 
study  of  medicine  and  graduated 
from  Rush  Medical  College,  Chi- 
cago, 1897.  The  same  year  he  lo- 
cated at  Tolono,  111.,  where  he  has 
ever  since  been  actively  engaged 
professionally. 


DR.   CHARLES   W.   MARTINIE. 


Dr.  Charles  W...  Martinie  was 
born  Nov.  7,  1847  m  Henry  Coun- 
ty, Kentucky.  He  passed  his 
early  boyhood  days  working  on 
his  father's  farm  and  attending  the 
neighborhood  schools.  He  began 
the  study  of  medicine  with  his  un- 
cle, Dr.  C.  E.  Triplitte  of  Morocco, 
Ind.,  and  during  the  winter  of 
1869-70  attended  his  first  course 
of  lectures  at  Rush  Medical  Col- 
lege, Chicago.  In  1870  he  located 
at  Palermo,  111.,  and  practiced  his 
profession  there  till  the  fall  of 
1873,  when  he  went  to  Cincinnati 
and  matriculated  at  Miami  College 
from  which  he  graduated  in 
the  spring  of  1874.  He  returned 
to  Palermo  and  continued  busy  in 
professional  work  in  that  locality 
till  1892  when  he  removed  to  Lin- 
coln, 111.,  where  he  engaged  in 
practice  till  1896  when  he  changed 
his  location  to  Urbana,  111.,  where 
he  now  resides  and  practices  his 
profession  when  it  suits  his  con- 
venience. Dr.  Martinie  owns  a 
large  body  of  land  in  the  heart  of 
the  Illinois  corn  belt. 

Dr.  Clarence  B.  McClelland 
was  born  in  Decatur  March  24, 
1862,  where  he  received  his  pre- 
liminary education  and  grew  to 
manhood.  He  studied  medicine 
and  graduated  from  Rush  Medical 
College  in  1887.  He  was  in  gen- 
eral practice  for  a  time,  after 
which  he  took  special  courses 
in  Chicago  and  New  York.  In 
1896  he  located  in  Champaign  and 


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made  a  specialty  of  diseases  of  the      a  Champaign  County  boy,  who  is 
eye,  ear,  nose  and  throat.  Professor  of  Surgery  in  the  Medi- 

He  at  once  entered  upon  an  ex-  cal  Apartment  of  the  University 
cellent  business,  which  continued 
till  his  health  failed.  In  the  latter 
part  of  1898  his  condition  became 
serious  and  in  March,  1899,  he 
died,  regretted  by  all  who  knew 
him. 

Dr.  Daniel  P.  McClurc  was  born 
in  Washington  County,  Pennsyl- 
vania, August  28,  1837.  Ik- 
came  of  Scotch,  ancestry  and  got 
his  preliminary  education  in  the 
common  schools  and  at  Hayes- 
ville  Academy.  He  began  tin- 
study  of  medicine  in  1859  and  in 
1861  entered  the  army  as  Assist- 
ant Surgeon  of  the  64th  Ohio  In- 
fantry. His  regiment  was  at  Shi- 
loh.  Stone  River.  Mission  Ridge. 
Chickamauga,  Chattanooga  and 
many  other  engagements. 

Dr.  McClure  graduated  from 
the  Charity  Hospital  Medical  Col- 
lege, Cleveland,  Ohio,  in  1867. 
The  same  ye*ir  he  came  to  Illinois, 
located  in  Champaign  City  for  t;vo 
years  and  thon  removed  to  Ran- 
toul  in  1869,  where  he  practiced 
for  about  eighteen  years,  when  his 
health  gave  way  and  he  was 
obliged  to  try  a  change  of  climate. 
He  went  to  West  Point,  Miss., 
and  remained  there  four  or  five 
years  and  finally  died  in  the  early 
nineties.  Dr.  McClure  was  the 
preceptor  of  Dr.  D.  A.  K.  Steele,  a 
well  known  Chicago  Surgeon  and 

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DR.    D.    R.    McKINNEY,   1837-1903. 

Dr.  D.  R.  McKinney  was  born 
at  Piqua  ,Ohio,  April  15,  1837, 
and  obtained  his  education  in  the 
common  schools;  in  September, 
1863,  he  enlisted  in  the  9th  Indi- 
ana Cavalry  and  served  till  the  end 
of  the  war.  Upon  leaving  the 
army  he  turned  his  attention  to 
medicine  and  attended  lectures  at 
Miami  Medical  College,  Cincin- 
nati. Later  he  graduated  from  In- 
diana Medical  College,  Indianap- 
olis. 

In  1868  he  located  in  the  north 


eastern  part  of  Champaign  Coun- 
ty, at  Burr  Oak  Grove,  and  here 
continued  in  practice  till  1877, 
when  he  removed  his  office  to  Gif- 
ford,  then  a  newly  located  railway 
station.  Dr.  McKinney  remained 
in  active  practice  at  Gifford  for 
about  twenty  years,  when  failing 
health  induced  him  to  remove  to 
Indiana,  where  later  he  was  hon- 
ored with  the  Presidency  of  the 
Delaware  County  Medical  Society; 
and  also  was  a  member  of  the 
Muncie,  Indiana  Board  of  United 
States  Surgeons  for  Pension  Ex- 
aminations. His  death  occurred 
Sept.  28,  1903,  Champaign. 


Indiana,  and  removed  with  his 
parents  to  Champaign  Co.  111.,  in 
1868.  He  received  his  education 
in  the  common  schools,  the  Ur- 
bana  High  School  and  111.  State 
Normal  School.  For  a  time  he 
taught  school  and  later  began  the 
study  of  medicine  in  the  office  of 
his  father,  Dr.  D.  R.  McKinney. 
In  1883  he  graduated  from  Indi- 
ana Medical  College  and  some 
years  later  took  a  post-graduate 
course  in  the  medical  department 
of  the  Northwestern  University. 
In  1883  he  located  at  Gifford,  111., 
and  has  ever  since  been  in  active 
practice  at  that  place. 


DR.    THOMAS    J.    McKINNEY.  DR     JOSEpH    T.    MILLER. 

Dr.  T.  J.   McKinney     was  born     Negtor   Qf   the    Medical    Profession    in 
'Nov.   29,    1859,   in   Delaware,    Co.,  Champaign  County. 

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Dr.  Joseph  T.  Miller  was  born 
in  Butler  County,  Ohio,  February 
5,  1830.  While  Dr.  Miller 
was  a  child  his  father 
removed  to  Indiana  and  fol- 
lowed the  life  of  a  farmer.  Young 
Miller  worked  on  the  farm  and  at- 
tended the  country  schools  till  he 
was  eighteen  years  of  age,  when 
for  a  time  he  attended  Wabash 
College.  Afterward  he  taught 
school  and  meantime  began  the 
study  of  medicine.  Later  he  grad- 
uated from  Rush  Medical  College, 
Chicago.  Dr.  Miller  located  in 
Urbana  in  1853  and  has  been  in 
continuous  practice  in  Champaign 
County  longer  than  any  other 
physician  and  is  consequently  our 
Medical  Xestor.  He  was  at  one 
time  mayor  of  Urbana.  During 
the  civil  war  he  was  surgeon  of 
the  6oth  111.  Infantry  with  the  rank 
of  major. 

Dr.  Charles  H.  Mills  was  born 
at  Dumberton,  New  Hampshire, 
August  12,  1824.  When  fourteen 
years  of  age  he  removed  with  his 
parents  to  Michigan,  where  till  he- 
was  twenty-one  years  of  age  his 
time  was  divided  between  working 
on  the  farm  and  attending  school. 
He  afterwards  attended  the  Uni- 
versity of  Michigan  for  a  time  and 
in  1851  graduated  from  Cleve- 
land Medical  College.  He  came 
to  Illinois  in  1854  and  located  in 
Urbana,  where  he  practiced  medi- 
cine till  the  autumn  of  1856,  when 
he  removed  to  Champaign,  then 


DR.    CHARLES    M.    MILLS,    1823-1897. 

West    Urbana,    opened      an    office 
and  began  answering  calls. 

In  September,  1862,  he  joined 
the  army  as  Assistant  Surgeon  of 
the  1 25th  Illinois  Infantry.  In  a 
little  time  he  was  promoted  to  Sur- 
geon's place  in  the  regiment  with 
the  rank  of  Major.  He  served 
till  the  end  of  the  war  in  1865.  In 
the  winter  of  1864  he  received  a 
medical  degree  from  the  Univer- 
sity of  Xashville. 

Dr.  Mills  died  of  angina  pectoris 
July  6,  1907. 

Dr.  Ellen  Miner  was  born  on  a 
farm  in  Hensley  Township,  Cham- 
paign County,  Illinois,  where  she 


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DR.   ELLEN   MINER. 

grew  to  young  womanhood  and 
meanwhile  acquired  her  prelimi- 
nary education  in  the  public 
schools.  In  1893  sne  graduated 
from  the  Medical  Department  of 
Drake  University,  Des  Moines, 
Iowa,  and  for  a  number  of  years 
has  been  actively  engaged  profes- 
sionally at  her  home  in  Champaign 
City. 

Dr.  John  M.  Minturn  was  born 
in  Kentucky  in  1849  an<^  graduat- 
ed from  the  College  of  Medicine 
and  Surgery,  Cincinnati,  in  1884. 
He  located  in  Rantoul  in  1884  and 
practiced  medicine  there  till  his 
health  gave  way  in  1890.  In  1893 
he  died  at  the  home  of  his  child- 


hood in  Kentucky.  Dr.  Minturn 
was  a  member  of  the  Champaign 
County  Board  of  United  States 
Surgeons  for  Pensions  Examina- 
tion from  1885  till  1889. 

Dr.  Benjamin  G.  Morris  located 
at  LTrbana  in  an  early  day,  later  re- 
moved to  Philo,  and  was  the  first 
doctor  in  that  place.  He,  however, 
did  not  remain  in  active  practice 
long.  His  death  occurred  at  Philo 
in  September,  1879.  The  place 
and  date  of  his  birth  can  not  be 
given.  He  is  said  to  have  been  a 
graduate  of  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania. 

Dr.  James  E.  Morrison  was  born 
in  Buffalo,  New  York,  July  4, 
1834,  and  when  a  small  boy  re- 
moved with  his  parents  to  north- 
ern Illinois  where  he  grew  to  man- 
hood. He  got  his  preliminary  ed- 
ucation in  the  common  schools 
and  at  Knox  College.  When  a 
young  man  he  began  the  study  of 
medicine  and  later  graduated  from 
Hahnemann  Medical  College,  Chi- 
cago. Dr.  Morrison  practiced  at 
Paxton,  111.,  a  number  of  years  and 
in  1880  removed  to  Urbana,  where 
he  is  yet  in  practice. 

Dr.  Philip  C.  Mosier  was  born 
December  31,  1827,  in  Harrison 
County,  Indiana.  In  his  boyhood 
he  worked  on  the  farm  and  attend- 
ed the  primary  subscription 
schools  that  were  taught  in  the  log 
cabins  that  served  in  that  day  as 
school  houses. 


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DR.   PHILLIP   C.    MOSIER,    1827-1900. 


When  eighteen  years  of  age  he 
taught  school  and  a  little  later  be- 
gan the  study  of  medicine.  After 
studying  for  a  due  period  he  began 
the  practice  of  medicine  in  Milford, 
Indiana,  but  at  the  expiration  of 
two  years  removed  to  Illinois.  He 


arrived  at  Homer,  Champaign 
County,  April  15,  1851,  and  at 
once  entered  upon  the  practice  of 
his  profession. 

Dr.  Hosier  obtained  his  money 
for  equipping  himself  to  begin  the 
practice  by  teaching  school.  In 


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the  middle  of  the  Nineteenth  Cen- 
tury teachers  were  poorly  paid 
and  drugs  and  instruments  were 
high.  Quinine  was  five  dollars  per 
ounce  and  opium  eight  dollars  a 
pound.  Dr.  Mosier's  work  was 
laborious  in  the  extreme.  Long 
rides,  unbridged  streams,  hard- 
ships of  every  kind  and  little  ready 
money  among  his  patrons.  But 
Dr.  Hosier  was  hardheaded 
enough  to  see  that  the  black,  rich 
loam  of  Champaign  County  was  in 
reality  a  mine  of  wealth  and  by 
some  means  managed  to  get  hold 
of  four  hundred  acres  in  Homer 
Township.  Upon  this  he  planted 
orchards  and  made  other  needed 
improvements. 

This  farm  and  other  business 
matters  began  to  need  so  much  of 
his  attention  that  in  1859  he  re- 
tired from  practice.  His  business 
venture  prospered  and  in  1900  Dr. 
Mosier  died  a  wealthy  man. 

Dr.  W.  K.  Newcomb  was  born 
in  Lyons,  Iowa,  April  6,  1857,  and 
obtained  his  preliminary  education 
in  the  Public  Schools  and  at  Gem 
City  College,  Quincy,  Illinois.  Af- 
ter teaching  for  a  time  he  entered 
the  office  of  Dr.  W.  G.  Cochrane, 
Farmer  City,  111.,  and  began  the 
study  of  medicine.  Later  he  ma- 
triculated at  Rush  Medical  Col- 
lege, Chicago,  from  which  he  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  M.  D.  in  1882. 
Soon  after  he  located  at  Fisher, 
111.,  where  he  did  a  laborious  coun- 
try practice  till  1896,  when  he 


DR.  W.  K.  NEWCOMB. 

went  abroad  for  a  season  and  re- 
turning home  removed  to  Cham- 
paign City,  opened  an  office  and 
soon  became  actively  engaged  in 
professional  work  and  is  so  occu- 
pied today.  For  a  number  of  years 
Dr.  Xewcomb  has  faithfully  repre- 
sented the  profession  in  his  vicin- 
ity by  serving  as  councilor  of  the 
8th  District  of  the  Illinois  State 
Medical  Society. 

Dr.  John  North  was  born  in  the 
year  1841  in  Coshocton  County, 
Ohio.  He  was  a  well  educated 
man  and  a  graduate  in  medicine, 
but  from  what  college  cannot  now 
be  learned. 

Upon   the   breaking   out   of  the 


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civil  war  he  enlisted  as  a  private, 
but  in  what  regiment  is  not  known. 
Later  he  was  promoted  to  a  Lieu- 
tenant. 

Towards  the  close  of  his  army 
service  he  acted  as  Hospital  In- 
spector, and  Captain. 

This  service  was  the  real  begin- 
ning of  his  professional  career.  He 
located  in  Rantoul  in  1865  and 
practiced  there  till  1873,  when  he 
removed  west  .  In  18(^3  he  re- 
turned to  Rantoul  and  soon  after 
died  in  that  village. 


DR.  SAMUEL  K.  PAGE,  1810-1893 

Dr.  Samuel  K.  Page  was  born 
in  New  Hampshire  in  1810,  was  a 
student  of  Dr.  Reuben  D.  Mussey, 
the  noted  surgeon.  Dr.  Page 


came  to  Champaign  in  1857  and 
very  soon  after  entered  upon  a 
laborious  practice.  Some  twenty- 
five  years  lairer  he  retired  from  ac- 
tive practice  and  in  1893  died  in 
Champaign  at  the  advanced  age  of 
83  yeais.  Dr.  Page  was  a  genial, 
pleasant  man  and  a  good  prac- 
tical physician,  whose  kind  words 
and  good  deeds  are  cherished 
remembrances  of  his  old  patrons. 


DR.    JOHN    T.    PEARMAN,    1829-1896. 

Dr.  John  T.  Pearman  was  born 
October  26,  1829,  in  Hardin 
County,  Kentucky.  He  grew  to 
manhood  on  the  farm  and  obtained 
his  education  attending  the  winter 
schools.  Upon  reaching  young 
manhood  he  came  to  Illinois  and 


4Q 


for  a  time  taught  school.  Later 
he  began  the  study  of  medicine 
and  in  1858  graduated  from  Rush 
Medical  College.  His  first  loca- 
tion for  practice  was  in  Edgar 
County,  Illinois,  but  in  1864  he  re- 
moved to  Champaign  City,  where 
he  was  in  active  practice  till  his 
health  failed  in  the  latter  part  of 
the  year  1895.  May  26,  1896,  Dr. 
Pearman  died,  regretted  by  a  large 
circle  of  admiring  friends  and  ap- 
preciative patrons. 

Dr.  Pearman  was  a  man  of  ex- 
ceptionally fine  social  qna1iti?s 
and  filled  several  important  posi- 
tions. I <"or  many  years  he  was  tin- 
Champaign  Division  Surgeon  for 
the  Illinois  Central  railway:  for  a 
time  was  a  member  of  the  Cham- 
paign County  Board  of  United 
States  Surgeons  for  Pension  Ex- 
aminations; was  for  six  years  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
of  the  University  of  Illinois,  and 
also  was  for  a  very  long  period  a 
member  of  the  Champaign  Board 
of  Education. 

Dr.  J.  L.  Polk  was  born  at 
Bridgeville,  Del.,  Nov.  23,  1841. 
Obtained  his  preliminary  educa- 
tion in  the  common  schools  and  at 
Milton  Academy.  Upon  reaching 
manhood  began  the  study  of  med- 
icine and  graduated  from  Jeffer- 
son Medical  College  in  1868  and 
for  a  time  was  interne  in  Blocklev 
Hospital.  He  began  the  practice 
of  medicine  at  Arcola,  111.,  in  1868, 
where  for  manv  vears  he  continued 


DR.  JOHN  L.  POLK. 

to  be  actively  engaged  profession- 
ally. He  is  now  a  resident  of 
Champaign  City. 

Dr.  J.  T.  Purcell  was  born  in 
Sardinia,  ( )hio,  September  22, 
1844,  and  received  his  education 
in  the  common  schools  of  his  na- 
tive state.  October  15,  1861,  he 
enlisted  in  the  nth  Ohio  Cavalry, 
in  which  organization  he  served 
till  discharged,  July  14,  1866,  five 
years  and  nine  months  later,  com- 
pleting, it  is  believed,  the  longest 
volunteer  service  of  any  present 
resident  of  Champaign  County 
who  gave  his  services  througn  the 
civil  war.  Began  the  study  of 
medicine  by  attendance  upon  lec- 


DR.   J.  T.  PURCELL. 

tures  at  Ohio  Medical  College, 
Cincinnati,  and  later  graduated 
from  Indiana  Medical  College,  In- 
dianapolis. In  1869  began  prac- 
tice in  Indiana,  and  in  March, 
1877,  came  to  Illinois  and  located 
at  St.  Joseph,  where  he  has  since 
been  doing  a  large,  laborious  prac- 
tice. 

Dr.  George  T.  Rowland  was 
born  Dec.  31,  1852,  in  the  City  of 
Louisville,  Ky.,  and  received  his 
education  in  the  public  schools  and 
at  the  Xaverian  Brothers  School, 
Louisville.  Upon  reaching  young 
manhood  he  began  the  study  of 
medicine  and  graduated  from  the 
Louisville  Medical  College  in 


1876.  First  practiced  his  profes- 
sion in  Missouri.  In  1881  re- 
moved to  Homer,  Champaign 
County,  where  he  was  busy  pro- 
fessionally till  1898,  when  he 
changed  his  location  to  Martins- 
ville,  111.,  where  he  is  now  in  prac- 
tice. 

Dr.  John  S.  Saddler.     See  Pion- 
eer Doctors,  Champaign  Co. 


DR.  SAMUEL  SCOTT  SALISBURY. 


Dr.  S.  S.  Salisbury  of  Tolono 
was  born  near  Georgetown,  Brown 
County,  Ohio,  July  22,  1829.  Af- 
ter graduating  in  medicine  from 
Cleveland  Medical  College  he 
practiced  medicine  a  few  years  in 
his  own  state.  But,  thinking  the 
West  might  afford  better  oppor- 
tunities for  a  young  man,  he,  in 


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1861,  came  to  Champaign  County 
and  located  in  Tolono,  where  he  is 
yet  doing  an  active,  laborious 
practice.  As  said  elsewhere  he  is 
but  ten  days  younger  than  Dr. 
Howard  and  like  the  latter  is  one 
of.  the  oldest  physicians  in  the 
county  that  assiduously  attends  to 
the  details  of  practice. 


DR.    HOMER   A.    SHAW. 


Dr.  Homer  A.  Shaw  was  born 
in  Lancaster,  Ohio,  Nov.  26,  1827. 
Was  educated  in  the  common 
schools  and  academy.  He  studied 
Latin,  German  and  other  higher 
branches  of  learning.  Upon  reach- 
ing young  manhood  began  the 
study  of  medicine  and  received  the 
degree  of  M.  D.  from  Starling 
Medcial  College,  Columbus,  Ohio, 


in  1852  and  located  at  Lancaster, 
Ohio.  Upon  the  breaking  out  of 
the  civil  war  became  assistant  sur- 
geon of  the  loth  Ohio  Infantry, 
wherein  he  served  till  1864  when 
he  was  made  acting  staff  surgeon, 
U.  S.  A.,  and  had  charge  of  a  field 
hospital.  In  1866  he  located  at 
Homer,  111.,  for  the  practice  of  his 
profession  and  has  been  so  en- 
gaged ever  since. 

Dr.  R.  W.  Shumaker  was  born 
in  Kanawha  County,  West  Vir- 
ginia, May  22,  1825.  Studied 
medicine  and  graduated  from 
Cleveland  Medical  College.  Was 
the  first  physician  to  come  to 
Champaign  City  and  located  there 
in  the  fall  of  1854.  Remained 
there  in  practice  till  the  fall  of 
1857,  when  he  moved  away.  Dur- 
ing the  civil  war  he  was  connected 
with  a  hospital  in  Louisville,  Ken- 
tucky, but  whether  in  the  capacity 
of  a  civil  or  military  surgeon  is 
not  known.  Dr.  Shumaker  died  at 
Louisville  in  1864. 

Dr.  William  B.  Sims  was  born  in 
Blount  County,  Tennessee,  April 
14,  1836.  When  but  four  years  of 
age  his  parents  removed  to  Ed- 
gar County,  Illinois.  Young  Sims 
worked  on  the  farm  and  attended 
the  common  school  till  he  was 
thirteen  years  of  age  when  he 
learned  the  shoemaker's  trade, 
which  he  followed  industriously 
for  fifteen  years.  Upon  the  break- 
ing out  of  the  war  he  left  the 


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shoemaker's  bench  and  enlisted  in 
the  4th  Illinois  Cavalry.  He  be- 
gan the  study  of  medicine  in  1866 
and  subsequently  graduated  at 
Louisville  Medical  College.  He 
located  at  St.  Joseph  in  the  spring 
of  1870  and  was  engaged  in  prac- 
tice there  till  1883,  when  he  re- 
moved to  Urbana,  where  he  yet 
lives. 

Dr  John  W.  Scroggs  was 
born  March  12,  1817  in  Harrison 
County,  Ohio.  When  but  ten 
years  of  age  his  mother  died  aiul 
in  consequence  the  family  was 
scattered  and  young  Scroggs  was 
thrown  on  his  own  resources  when 
very  young.  He  divided  his  time 
between  work  on  the  farm  and  at- 
tendance upon  the  subscription 
schools  of  the  neriod.  He  be- 
came interested  in  medicine,  stud- 
ied that  science  and  finally  gradu- 
ated in  medicine  at  Cincinnati 
about  1840  and  in  the  same  year 
began  practice  at  Wilmington, 
Ohio.  In  1857  he  located  at 
Champaign,  where  for  a  time  In- 
engaged  in  practice,  but  later  quit 
it  for  other  pursuits.  He  was  at  one 
time  proprietor  of  the  Central  Il- 
linois Gazette,  predecessor  of  The 
Champaign  Gazette.  In  1868  Dr. 
Scroggs  was  elected  to  the  Illi- 
nois Legislature  and  served  one 
term.  He  did  his  part  in  getting 
the  University  of  Illinois  located 
in  Champaign  County  and  by  Gov- 
ernor Oglesby  was  appointed  one 
of  its  trustees.  In  1871  Dr. 


Scroggs  began  to  suffer  with  symp- 
toms of  paralysis  and  two  years 
later  December  25,  1873,  nad  an 
apoplectic  stroke  from  which  he 
died  January  3,  1874. 


DR.    ELIJAH    S.    SMITH. 

Elijah  S.  Smith  was  born  near 
Bloomington,  Ind.,  March  18, 
1856,  and  while  in  his  early  teens 
removed  with  his  parents  to  a 
farm  near  Charleston,  111.  His 
early  years  were  divided  between 
farm  work  and  attendance  at  the 
nearby  country  school.  Later  he 
attended  Lee's  Academy  at  Loxa, 
111.,  and  finally  became  a  student 
at  the  University  of  Illinois.  For 
seventeen  years  of  his  life  he 
taught  school,  and  during  this 


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period  became  the  recipient  of  a 
life-certificate  from  the  Illinois 
State  Educational  Authorities,  and 
moreover  filled  a  number  of  impor- 
tant and  responsible  positions  in 
his  chosen  profession.  But  notwith- 
standing his  success  in  teaching  he 
finally  turned  to  medicine  and  in 
1893  entered  the  Chicago  Homeo- 
pathic College,  from  which  he 
graduated  in  1896.  Soon  af- 
ter graduation  he  located  for  the 
practice  of  his  profession  in  Ur- 
bana  and  has  ever  since  been  ac- 
tivelv  engaged  in  professional 
work  in  that  citv. 


DR.    WINSTON    SOMERS,      1800-1871. 


Dr.  Winston  Somers.    See  Pion- 
eer Doctors   Champaign  Co. 


W.  H.     Stevens.       See  Pioneer 
Doctors  Champaign  Co. 

Dr.   Charles   A.   Thompson  was 
born   March  27,   1824,  at  Sandus- 
ky,   Ohio.      When   very   young  he 
removed  with  his  parents  to  Mich- 
igan where  he  grew  up  on  a  farm. 
At  the   age  of  21      he  began   the 
study    of    medicine      and    in    1849 
graduated  from  a  Medical  College 
at  La  Porte,  Ind.     After  practicing 
a   few   years   elsewhere   he   located 
at   Urbana  in   1856  and  was  there 
busy    in    practice      when    the    civil 
war  broke  out  in  April  1861.     He 
at  once  entered  the  service  as  As- 
sistant   Surgeon    of   the    25th    Illi- 
nois   Infantry.      In    November    he 
was  transferred  to  the  I3th  Illinois 
Infantry,    in    which      organization 
he  served  as  Assistant  Surgeon  till 
its  term   of  service   expired,   when 
Dr.  Thompson  was  given  the  Sur- 
geon's  place   in   the     cjoth   Illinois 
Infantry.     He  served     during  the 
whole  period  of  the  war. 

After  the  war  Dr.  Thompson  lo- 
cated in  Jefferson  City,  Mo.,  where 
he  for  many  years  had  a  large 
practice.  For  perhaps  a  quarter 
of  a  century  Dr.  Thompson  was  a 
zealous  member  of  the  Missouri 
State  Medical  Association  and  for 
the  period  of  sixteen  years  was  its 
Treasurer  For  many  years  he 
was  the  local  Surgeon  of  the  Mis- 
souri Pacific,  and  also  for  a  time 
was  a  member  of  the  local  Board 
of  United  States  Surgeons  for 


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Pension  Examinations.  Dr.  came  actively  engaged  in  profes- 
Thompson  died  at  his  home  in  sional  duties.  In  1900  he  removed 
Jefferson  City,  Mo.,  December  15,  to  Urbana  and  opened  an  office 
1897,  in  his  seventy-fourth  year.  there  and  has  since  been  busy  in 

practice. 


DR.  C.  L.  VAXDOREX. 

Dr.  C.  L.  VanDoren  was  born 
at  Farmington,  111.,  May  21,  1857. 

His  boyhood  days  were  divided 
between  farm  work  and  attendance 
at  the  neighborhood  schools.  Up- 
on reaching  manhood  he  deter- 
mined to  make  medicine  his  life 
vocation  and  with  this  end  in  view 
entered  Bennett  Medical  College, 
Chicago,  from  which  he  graduated 
in  1 88 1.  Immediately  upon  com- 
pleting his  medical  education  Dr. 
Van  Doren  located  at  Hope,  Ver- 
milion Co.,  111.,  where  he  soon  be- 


DR.  T.  E.  WALKER. 

Dr.T.E. Walker  was  born  Aug- 
ust i,  1845,  m  Boone  Co.,  Ind.  His 
early  days  were  divided  between 
farm  work  and  attendance  upon 
the  neighborhood  schools.  Later 
he  went  to  Butler  University,  In- 
dianapolis and  finally  decided  to 
make  medicine  his  life  business. 
He  graduated  from  Indiana  Medi- 
cal School  in  1880  and  for  two 
years  practiced  medicine  in  his  na- 
tive State.  In  1880  he  located  at 
Penfieldjlll.,  where  he  remained  in 


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practice  two  years,  when  he  re- 
moved to  Gifford,  111.,  where  he 
has  ever  since  been  actively  en- 
gaged in  professional  work. 


Springfield,  111.,  and -is  now  follow- 
ing   professional    work    there. 


DR.   CARRIE  N.   WHITE. 

Dr.  Carrie  N.  White  was  born 
at  New  Albany,  Indiana,  and  ob- 
tained her  preliminary  education 
in  the  public  schools  and  at  Jack- 
sonville College,  Jacksonville,  111. 
Upon  arriving  at  the  age  of  young 
womanhood  she  entered  upon  the 
study  of  medicine  and  graduated 
from  the  Woman's  Medical  Col- 
lege, Chicago,  in  1883.  With  her 
husband,  Dr.  J.  E.  White,  she  lo- 
cated in  Urbana  in  1888,  where 
she  remained  in  practice  till  1900 
when  she  removed  with  him  to 


DR.  J.   E.   WHITE. 

Dr.  J.  E.  White  was  born  at  Lo- 
gan, Ohio,  in  1854  and  obtained 
his  preliminary  education  in  the 
public  schools.  After  attaining 
manhood  he  entered  upon  the 
study  of  medicine  and  graduated 
from  Rush  Medical  College,  Chi- 
cago, in  1883. 

Early  in  his  professional  career 
Dr.  White  located  in  Urbana,  111., 
where  he  continued  in  practice  till 
1906  when  he  removed  to  Spring- 
field, 111.,  where  he  has  since  been 
in  practice.  He  now  holds  the  po- 
sition of  Supreme  Medical  Direct- 
or of  the  Court  of  Honor. 


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DR.   Z.   T.   WHITMIRE,    1868-1900. 


Dr.  Z.  T.  Whitmire  was  born  in 
Metamora,  111.,  about  1866,  and 
obtained  his  education  in  the  com- 
mon schools  and  University  of  Il- 
linois, from  which  he  graduated  in 
due  time. 

He  entered  upon  the  study  of 
medicine  soon  after  completing 
his  preliminary  education  and 
received  his  M.  D.  degree  from 
Rush  Medical  College,  Chicago, 
in  1890.  The  same  year  he 
located  for  the  practice  of 
his  profession  at  Tolono,  111.,  re- 
mained there  two  years  and  then 
removed  to  Urbana,  where  he  re- 


mained till  his     death     which  oc- 
curred in  December,  1899. 

Dr.  L.  S.  Wilcox  was  born  in 
Lacon,  Illinois,  in  the  year  1847. 
In  boyhood  he  worked  on  a  farm 
and  attended  the  common  schools 
and  later  graduated  from  the 
Northwestern  University.  H* 
took  up  the  study  of  medicine  and 
in  1873  graduated  from  Long  Is- 
land Medical  College,  Brooklyn. 
He  located  in  Champaign  in  1875 
and  very  soon  had  a  good  practice, 
which  he  kept  for  about  fifteen 
years,  when  President  Harrison 
appointed  him  Revenue  Collector 
for  the  Springfield  District,  a  posi- 
tion he  held  for  four  years.  In 
1897  he  was  appointed  Consul  at 
Hankow,  China,  by  President  Mc- 
Kinley.  While  a  resident  of 
Champaign  Dr.  Wilcox  was  sev- 
eral times  Supervisor  of  the  Town- 
ship and  served  as  Mayor  of 
Champaign  City  two  or  three 
terms. 

Dr.  Wilcox  is  now  living  in  re- 
tirement at  Los  Angeles,  Cali- 
fornia. 

While  none  of  the  following  are 
physicians,  they  have  all  to  a 
greater  or  less  extent  been  asso- 
ciated with  medical  work  in  Cham- 
paign County. 

Thomas  J.  Burrill,  LL.  D.,  Ph. 
D.,  was  born  April  25,  1839,  at 


DR.   LEVI   S.   WiLCOX. 


JONATHAN   T.   BURRILL, 
Ph.  D..  LL.  D. 

Pittsfield,  Mass.  Received  his 
preliminary  education  at  the  Illi- 
nois Normal  School  from  which  he 
graduated  in  1865.  He  has  been 
connected  with  the  University  of 
Illinois  since  its  organization,  is 
now  its  Vice  President  and  served 
as  acting  President  from  1901  and 
1904  and  fills  the  chair  of  Botany 
and  Horticulture.  Has  made  a 
special  study  of  diseases  of  plants 
and  as  a  Scientist  has  an  inter-na- 
tional reputation.  Is  a  member  of 
several  scientific  societies  in  Amer- 
ica and  Europe.  Dr.  Burrill  is  an 
honorary  member  of  the  Cham- 
paign County  Medical  Society  and 
has  done  not  a  little  in  sanitation. 


John  Milton  Gregory,  Ph.  D., 
LL.  D.,  was  born  at  Sand  Lake, 
Rensselaer  Co.,  N.  Y.,  July  6, 
1822.  Graduated  from  Union  Col- 
lege in  1846.  After  two  years'  study 
of  law,  studied  theology  and  for  a 
number  of  years  was  pastor  of  a 
Baptist  church.  In  1858  was 
elected  State  Superintendent  of 
Instruction  of  Michigan,  and  in 
1863  became  President  of  Kala- 
mazoo,  College,  Michigan.  In  1867 
was  elected  Regent  of  Illinois  In- 
dustrial University  (later  Univer- 
sity of  Illinois.)  He  served  as  this 
Institution's  Regent  (President) 
till  1880  and  more  than  all  others 
shaped  and  moulded  the  school 
that  it  might  grow  into  its  present 
proud  position.  In  1877  Governor 
Cullom  appointed  Dr.  Gregory  a 
member  of  the  Illinois  State  Board 
of  Health  at  the  date  of  its  organ- 
ization. During  his  mem- 
bership he  was  elected  Presi- 
dent of  the  Board  and  by  his  ready 
pen  and  forceful  speech  did 
much  to  start  the  Board  of  Health 
along  right  lines.  From  1882  to 
1885  he  was  a  member  of  the  Civil 
Service  Commission  under  Presi- 
dent Arthur. 

Dr.  Gregory  died  October  20, 
1898,  and  by  his  request  was  bur- 
ied on  the  campus  of  the  Univer- 
sity of  Illinois. 

Stephen  A.  Forbes,  LL.  D.,  Ph. 
D.,  was  born  May  29,  1844,  at 
Silver  Creek,  111.  Obtained  his 


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JOHN   MILTON   GREGORY.  Ph.  D.,  LL.  D. 


STEPHEN  A.  FORBES.  Ph.  D.,  LL.  D 

preliminary  education  in  the  pub- 
lic schools,  1'eloit  College  and 
Rush  Medical  College.  Dr. 
Forbes  is  a  Scientist  of  interna- 
tional reputation  and  is  a  member 
of  a  number  of  Scientific  Societies 
both  at  home  and  abroad.  For 
many  years  he  has  been  Illinois 
State  Entomologist  and  is  now  Di- 
rector of  the  State  Laboratory  of 
Natural  History.  For  a  number 
of  years  he  served  as  Dean  of  the 
College  of  Science,  University  of 
Illinois,  and  in  this  institution 
fills  the  chair  of  Zoology  and  En- 
tomology. He  is  an  honorary 
member  of  the  Champaign  County 
Medical  Society. 


.MISS    FRANCES    NORTH. 

Superintendent  Julia   F.   Burnham 
Hospital. 

Miss  Frances  Xorth  was  born 
at  Edgewood,  Efifingham  County, 
Illinois,  and  when  eleven  years  of 
age  removed  with  her  parents  to 
Sparta.  Michigan,  where  she  grew 
to  young  womanhood,  meanwhile 
obtaining  her  education  in  the 
common  schools.  In  1891  she  en- 
tered the  Training  School  for 
Nurses  at  Grace  Hospital,  Detroit, 
Mich.  ,  from  which  she  graduated 
in  1893.  After  following  her  pro- 
fession for  a  time  in  Michigan, 
she  came  to  Champaign,  111., 
where  in  1896  she  entered  the 
Julia  F.  Burnham  Hospital,  in 
which  for  many  years  she  has  ren- 
dered most  efficient  service  as  Su- 
perintendent. 


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THE    CHAMPAIGN    COUNTY   MEDICAL    SOCIETY 


With  the  coming  of  the  Illinois 
Central  and  Wabash  Railways  in 
the  early  fifties,  the  population  of 
Champaign  County  increased  rap- 
idly. And  with  the  increase  of 
population  came  more  doctors, 
enough  in  fact,  to  a  little  later  jus- 
tify the  formation  of  a  Medical 
Society. 

At  this  late  day  it  is  not  possi- 
ble to  give  the  names  of  all  the 
doctors  in  attendance  upon  its 
first  meeting.  But  among  those 
present  were  Drs.  H.  C.  Howard 
and  C.  H.  Mills  of  Champaign  and 
Dr.  J.  T.  Miller  of  Urbana.  It  is 
a  matter  for  congratulation  that 
two  of  these  men  are  yet  with  us. 
and  well  preserved  in  hearty  old 
age. 

In  1860,  the  year  following  its 
organization,  the  Society  pub 
lished  in  pamphlet  form  its  con- 
stitution, together  with  the  Code 
of  Ethics  of  the  American  Medi- 
cal Association.  A  copy  of  this 
publication,  the  property  of  Dr.  E. 
A.  Kratz,  dim,  faded  and  yellow 
with  age,  is  before  the  writer  of 
these  pages. 

Quoting  from  this  old  pamph- 
let we  find  that  Article  II  of  the 
Constitution  declares:  "The  ob- 
jects contemplated  by  this  Associ- 
ation are:  i,  The  establishment 
and  maintenance  of  union,  har- 
mony and  good  government 


among  its  members,  thereby  pro- 
moting the  character,  interest, 
honor  and  usefulness  of  the  pro- 
fession. II.  The  cultivation  and 
advancement  of  medical  science 
and  literature  by  the  collection, 
diffusion,  interchange,  preserva- 
tion and  general  circulation  of 
medical  knowledge  among  its 
members." 

Article  VI,  Section  I,  of  the 
constitution  declares  that,  "Any 
member  who  shall  be  guilty  of 
gross  misconduct,  either  as  a  mem- 
ber of  this  association  or  citizen 
of  the  community,  and  shall  be 
palpably  derelict  in  duty,  either  as 
a  member  or  officer  shall  be  liable 
to  expulsion,  or  such  other  cen- 
sure as  the  society  may  direct." 

Following  is  the     published  list 
of  members  in  1860: 
S.   L.  Bearse. 
Robert  H.  Brown. 
A.   Jackson   Crane. 
Wm.   M.   Goodwin. 
H.  C.  Howard. 
John  F.  Isom. 
S.  W.  Kincaid. 
J.  T.  Miller. 
C.  H.  Mills. 
Samuel  K.  Page. 
Winston  Somers. 
John  Swain. 
M.  B.  Thompson. 
C.  A.  Thompson. 


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Thus  the  Champaign  County 
Medical  Society  entered  on  its  ca- 
reer of  usefulness  fifty  years 
ago;  and  earnestly  sought  to  bring 
about  "The  establishment  of  un- 
ion, harmony  and  good  govern- 
ment among  its  members,"  and 
"the  cultivation  and  advancement 
of  medical  science  and  literature 
by  the  collection,  diffusion,  inter- 
change, preservation  and  general 
circulation  of  medical  knowledge 
among  its  members." 

That  these  most  desirable  ob- 
jects have,  at  least  to  a  degree, 
been  attained,  no  one  familiar  with 
the  workings  of  this  society  will 
question. 

With  the  history  of  the  Cham- 
paign County  Medical  Society 
during  the  first  fifteen  years  of  its 
existence,  the  writer  knows  noth- 
ing only  what  he  has  gleaned  from 
its  records  and  conversation  with 
the  pioneer  members.  But  of  its 
work  since,  he  can  speak  with 
some  authority;  for  more  than  a 
third  of  a  century  he  has  had  the 
privilege  of  being  one  of  its  mem- 
bers, and  for  about  ten  years 
served  as  its  secretary.  Some  one 
has  said  that  the  secretary  of  a 
medical  society  is  the  society. 
This  is  strong  language,  neverthe- 
less a  secretary  has  very  much  to 
do  in  making  a  medical  society  a 
success,  or  the  reverse. 

In  1874,  Dr.  M.  S.  Brown  was 
secretary  of  the  society  and  did 
his  work  especially  well.  In  a 


year  or  two  he  was  succeeded  by 
Dr.  L.  S.  Wilcox,  who  filled  the 
place  acceptably  for  several  years. 
The  last  half  of  the  seventies  was 
a  most  prosperous  period  for  the 
society  and  the  men  who  at  that 
time  might  be  referred  to  as  its 
pillars  were  Drs.  Wm.  M.  Good- 
win, M.  S.  Brown  and  S.  H.  Bir- 
ney  of  Urbana;  Drs.  H.  C.  How- 
ard and  J.  T.  Pearman  of  Cham- 
paign; Dr.  A.  T.  Darrah  of  Tolo- 
no:  Drs.  Jas.  Core  and  T.  M.  Hess 
of  Homer:  Dr.  (i.  W.  Hartman  of 
Sidney  and  Dr.  David  Jennings  of 
St.  Joseph.  The  meetings  oc- 
curred monthly  and  the  society 
was  "on  wheels,"  as  one  of  the 
members  expressed  it:  That  is, 
meetings  were  held  at  various 
towns  in  the  County.  Besides 
Champaign  and  Urbana  it  met  in 
Tolono,  Pliilo,  Sidney,  Homer, 
Rantoul,  etc.  At  most  of  these 
meetings  some  hospitable  member 
threw  open  his  doors,  especiallv 
the  one  that  led  to  the  dining 
room,  where  would  be  found  a 
table  literally  groaning  under  its 
weight  of  good  things  from  which 
every  doctor  was  expected  to  feast 
heartily.  The  social  features  of 
these  meetings  added  not  a  little 
to  the  attendance  and  interest. 
Frequently  three  sessions  were 
held,  namely,  a  forenoon,  an  af- 
ternoon and  an  evening  session. 
The  papers  read  were  carefully 
prepared  and  never  failed  to  call 
out  full  and  animated  discussions. 


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Almost  to  a  man  the  older  mem- 
bers of  the  society  were  at  this 
time  good  off  hand  talkers  and 
what  the  younger  members  may 
have  lacked  in  this  direction  they 
sought  to,  in  a  measure,  make  up 
by  preparing  carefully  written  pa- 
pers. 

An  edition  of  the  constitution 
and  by-laws  published  at  this  per- 
iod shows  a  list  of  twenty-three 
members.  And  as  an  illustration 
of  the  mutations  of  time  it  is  in- 
teresting to  note  that  of  these 
twenty-three  doctors  thirteen  are 
dead,  three  have  moved  out  of  the 
County,  and  one,  strange  to  say, 
has  grown  rich,  but  not  in  the 
practice  of  medicine,  as  many 
years  ago  he  changed  his  calling 
He  is  to-day  a  farmer  and  stock 
raiser  on  an  extensive  scale  and 
can  count  his  cattle  on  a  thousand 
hills — corn  hills.  And  only  six  of 
the  above  named  twenty-three 
members  are  left  in  Champaign 
County  to  practice  medicine. 

With  the  advent  of  the  eighties 
the  society  passed  into  a  period 
when  not  much  interest  was  taken 
in  its  meetings.  Several  causes 
conduced  to  this  state  of  relative 
apathy.  One  was  the  fact  that 
several  of  the  old  "wheel  horses" 
so  to  speak,  were  lost  to  the  soci- 
ety by  death  or  removal  from  the 
county.  But  the  organization  was 
faithfully  kept  up  and  not  long  af- 
ter the  advent  of  the  nineties  the 
society  received  a  new  impetus 


and  entered  upon  the  highly  pros- 
perous career  that  for  about  twen- 
ty years  past  it  has  been  enjoying. 
One  reason  for  this  renewed  life  is 
the  fact  that  a  great  many  bright, 
active,  new  men  have  come  into 
the  County.  The  meetings  of  the 
Champaign  County  Medical  Soci- 
ety occur  near  the  middle  of  each 
month,  are  well  attended  and 
much  interest  is  manifested  in 
them  by  those  in  attendance.  Two 
or  three  papers  are  presented  at 
each  session  and  these  unfailing- 
ly draw  out  free  discussions. 

FORTIETH  ANNIVERSARY. 
In  May,  1899,  the  Champaign 
County  Medical  Society  celebrat- 
ed its  fortieth  Anniversary  by  a 
Banquet  at  the  Beardsley  in 
Champaign.  Drs.  C.  H.  Mills  and 
H.  C.  Howard  (Dr.  J.  T.  Miller 
unable  to  attend,)  representatives 
of  the  founders  of  the  society, 
were  the  guests  of  honor.  Thirty- 
six  sat  down  to  the  table. 

Following  is     a     copy       of    the 
toasts  on  this  occasion: 
Our  Society:  Its     Home     and  Its 
Founders. 

Dr.    Chas.    B.   Johnson. 
"They  builded     better  than     they 

knew." 

Our  Society:  Its  Beginning. 

Dr.  C.  H.  Mills.  (One     of     the 
founders.) 
"There  were  giants  in  those  days.' 


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Our  Society:     Its  Beginning    and 
the  Pioneer. 


tv. 


Physicians  of  Champaign  Coun- 
Dr.  H.  C.  Howard. 


"In  ancient  days     they     used     to 
praise, 

The   God-like  art  of  healing — 
An  art  that  then  engaged  all  men 

Possessed  of  sense  and  feeling." 

Our  Society:     In  Days  Gone  By. 
Dr.  M.  S.  Brown. 

"There  are  no  days  like  the  good 

old  days — 

The  days  when  we  were  youth- 
ful; 
When     human-kind       were     pure 

mind, 

And   speech     and     deeds     were 
truthful." 

Our  Dead. 

Dr.  J.  D.  Mandeville. 

"Out  yonder  in  the  moonlight, 
wherein  God's  acre  lies, 

Go  Angels  walking  to  and  fro, 
singing  their  lullabies. 

Sleep,  oh  sleep! 

The     shepherd       guardeth     his 

sheep: 

Fast  speedeth  the  night  away, 
Soon  cometh  the  glorious  day: 
Sleep,    weary    ones,      while      ye 

may — 

Sleep,  oh  sleep." 


The  Country  Doctor. 

Dr.  D.  R.  Brower. 

"But  though  he   sees     death  and 

disease 

Run  riot  all  around  him, 
Patient  and  true  and  valorous  too, 

Such  have  I  always  found  him/' 

The  City  Doctor. 

Dr.  W.  H.  Graham. 

How  blest  is  he  who     knows     no 

cleaner  strife 
Than  art's  long  battle     with  the 

foes  of  life! 
No   doubt  assails  him,  doing  still 

his  best 

And   trusting  kindly   nature  for 
the  rest. 

— Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 

The    Doctor   in    Literature. 
Dr.  O.  B.  Will. 

"A  heap,  indeed  of  what  we  read 
By  doctors  is  provided 

For  to  those  groves  Apollo  loves 
His  learning  is  decided." 
The     Medical     Man     as       Seen 

Through  the  Eyes  of  a  Lawyer. 
Col.  J.   S.   Wolfe. 

"Upon  an  average  twice  a  week, 
When  anguish  clouds  my  brow, 

My  good  physician  friend  I  seek 
To  know  what  ails  me  now." 

When  the  toasts  had  all  been 
given,  certificates  of  life  member- 
ship were  conferred  upon  the  fol- 


lowing  gentlemen,  who  had  be- 
longed to  the  Champaign  County 
Medical  Society  twenty-five  years 
or  more: 

Dr.  M.  S.  Brown, 
Dr.  H.  C.  Howard, 
Dr.   C.   B.  Johnson, 
Dr.  E.  A.  Kratz, 
Dr.  J.  D.  Mandeville, 
Dr.  D.  R.  McKinney, 
Dr.  C.  H.  Mills, 
Dr.  J.  T.  Miller. 

"So  we  dream  and   dream   of  the 

good  old  times, 
And  our  hearts  grow  tenderer, 

fonder, 
As  those  dear  old     dreams  bring 

soothing  gleams 
Of  Heaven  away  off  yonder." 

Following  is  a  list  of  members 
in  1899:  James  M.  Bartholow, 
W.  F.  Bures,  T.  |.  Burrill  (hono- 
rary), W.  B.  Dillon,  J.  T.  Miller, 
H.  W.  Miller,  C.  N.  White,  and  J. 
E.  White,  Urbana;  C.  M.  Craig, 
H.  E.  Gushing,  J.  C.  Dodds,  J.  H. 
Finch,  T.  A.  Fujlenwider,  W.  L. 
Gray,  H.  C.  Howard,  C.  B.  John- 
son, E.  A.  Kratz,  J.  D.  Mande- 
ville, C.  H.  Mills,  Ellen  Miner,  W. 
K.  Newcomb,  J.  O.  Pearman,  F. 
H.  Powers,  Charles  Spears,  R.  D. 
Shurtz,  S.  W.  Shurtz,  W.  L. 
Schowengerdt  and  A.  S.  Wall. 
Champaign;  J.  C.  Harmon,  John 
Laughlin  and  J.  S.  Mason,  Ran- 
toul; H.  E.  Dunlap,  John  Marten, 
and  S.  S.  Salisbury,  Tolono:  J.  M. 


Hadden,  Seymour;  J.  A.  Hoffman 
and  Z.  E.  Matheny,  Pesotum;  T. 
E.  Walker  and  T.  J.  McKinney, 
Gifford;  J.  T.  Purcell,  St.  Joseph; 
John  H.  Gardiner,  Mahomet;  J. 
W.  Turner  and  G.  L.  Williamson, 
Homer;  S.  J.  Hicks,  Ivesdale;  L. 
O.  Sale  and  R.  P.  Dowd,  Fisher; 
E.  H.  Kinchelow,  Sidney;  J.  V. 
Champion,  Mansfield;  W.  F.  Mat- 
son,  Monticello;  D.  R.  McKinney, 
Oaksville,  Ind.;  M.  S.  Brown. 
Danville;  L.  S.  Wilcox,  Hankow. 
China. 

Of  the  above.  Dr.  T.  J.  Burrill  is 
an  honorary  member.  And  Drs. 
Brown,  Howard,  Johnson,  Kratz. 
Mandeville,  D.  R.  McKinney. 
Mills  and  J.  T.  Miller  are  life  mem- 
bers in  consequence  of  twenty-fivp 
years  or  longer  membership  in  the 
societv. 


LIST  OF  MEMBERS  IN  1909 

Alpers,    J.    H.,    Ranloul 
Baker,  H.  W. 
Baker,  Nellie  M.,  Urbana 
Burres,  W.  F.,  Urbana 
Bartholow,  J.   M.,  Urbana 
Brayshaw,   Jos.,   Homer 
Brewer,  E.   M.,  Rantoul 
Bundy,   H.   W.,   Pesotum 
Craig,  C.  M.,  Champaign 
Davis,  C.  S.,  Champaign 
Diller,  F.   S.,  Rantoul 
Dicks,  T.  A.,  Broadland 
D'llon,  Wm.,  Urbana 
Dodds,  J.  C.,  Champaign 
Dowd,  R.  P.,   Fisher 
Exton,   Lucy   A.,   Thomasboro 
Exton,   T.   J.,   Thomasboro 


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Finch,   J.    H.,   Champaign 

Gray,  W.  L.     Champaign 

Gulick,   C.    D.,   Urbana 

Hadden,  J.  M.,  Seymour 

Hanmore,  J.  J.,  Urbana 

Hoffman,  J.  A.,  Pesotum 

Howard,   H.   C.,   Champaign 

Hough,  C.  F.,  Champaign 

Hicks,  S.  J.,  Ivesdale 

Honn,  W.  M.,  Champaign 

Hilgenberg,  J.  F.,  Pesotum 

Johnson,  C.  B.,  Champaign 

Jesse,  R.  L.,  Philo 

Kariher,   H.   C.,   Champaign 

Kratz,  E.  A.,  Champaign 

Kinchloe,  E.  W.,  Glenn  Ferry  Idaho 

Kelso,  C.   E.,  Champaign 

Lyons,   Jennie,  Champaign 

Lowery,    J.    E.,    Homer 

Lamb,   J.   G.,  Fisher 

Lindley,  A.   M.,  Urbana 

Lawson,  J.  M.,  Sidney 

Mandeville,  J.   D.,  Champaign 

Marten,  John,  Tolono 

McKinney,   T.   J.,   Gifford 

Mason,  J.  S.,  Urbana 

Miner,   Ellen,   Champaign 

Munsell,  W.  W.,  Urbana 

Morlan,   H.   J.,  Ludlow 

Matheny,  Z.  E.  Des  Moines,  Iowa 

Miller,   L.   C.,   Rantoul 

Morland,  W.  J.,  Penfield 

Newcomb,   W.   K.,   Champaign 

Newcomb,  C.  F.,  Champaign 

Osborne,    J.    W.,    Champaign 

Pearman,    J.    O.,    Mahomet 


Powers,  F.  H.,  Champaign 

Potter,  G.  A.,  Royal 

Polk,  J.  L.,  Champaign 

Rees,  Win.,  St.  Joseph 

Purcell,  J.  T.,  St.  Joseph 

Rees,  Omar  H.,  Ogden 

Renfrew,   F.  C.,   Sadorus 

Rudy,  F.  T.,  Champaign 

Rice,   G.   W.,   Champaign 

Ranes,   J.   L.   Sidney 

Salisbury,   S.   S.,  Tolono 

Sale,  L.  O.,  Fisher 

Shurtz,  R.  E.,  Champaign 

Shurtz,   S.   W.,  Champaign 

Schowengerdt,    W.    E.,   Champaign 

Spears,  C.  H.,  Champaign 

Scheurich,  Jos.,  Philo 

Smith,  E.  S.,  Urbana 

Stanley,  O.  O.,  Urbana 

Smith,  H.   L.,  Ivesdale 

Van  Doren,  C.  L.,  Urbana 

Vollborn,  C.  L.,  Homer 

Walker,  T.  E.,  Gifford 

Wall,  A.  S.,  Champaign 

Wilson,  H.  V.,  Champaign 

Yantis,   D.   E.,  Urbana 

Zorger,  A.  L.,  Champaign 

Zorger,   W.    H.,   Champaign 

Zorger,  C.   H.,   Rantoul 

Following   are   honorary   members: 

C.  F.  Brisco,  M.  D.,  Urbana 

J.  T.  Burrill,  Ph.  D.,  LL.  D.,  Urbana 

S.  A.  Forbes,  Ph.  D.,  LL.  D.,  Urbana 

George  T.  Kemp,  Ph.  D.,  M.  D.,  Cham- 
paign 


FIFTY    YEARS  IN    PRACTICE 

February  27,   1900  the     citizens  the    Champaign    County      Medical 

and  physicians  of  Champaign  gav^  Society   gave   a   banquet     at     the 

Dr.   H.    C.    Howard  a  banquet  in  Beardsley  when  Drs.  C.   H.   Mills 

commemoration  of  his  having  been  and    S.    S.    Sallisbury      were      the 

engaged  in  the  practice  of     medi-  guests    of    honor    in    consequence 

cine  fifty  years.     April   n,     IQOI,  of  each  of  them  having  practiced 

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medicine  fifty  years.  Upon  this 
occasion  Drs.  Bartholow,  Harmon, 
Salisbury  and  Wilcox  were  made 
life  members. 

The  Champaign  County  Medical 
Society  is  one  of  the  best  medical 
organizations  of  its  kind  in  the 
state.  There  are  many  County 
Medical  societies  in  Illinois,  but 
only  two  societies  of  these  have  a 
larger  membership  than  has  the 
Champaign  County,  and  none  are 
more  instrumental  for  good. 


JOINED  THE  SILENT  MA- 
JORITY. 

Many  Champaign  County  doc- 
tors have  crossed  to  the  other 
shore,  and  the  following  though 
not  an  absolutely  complete  list  of 
our  deceased  brothers,  is  neverthe- 
less measurably  so. 

N.  H.  Adams,  E.  C.  Bartholow, 


E.  I.  Birdsell,  S.  H.     Birney,     M. 
S.  Brown,  Herman  Chaffee,  Job  S. 
Coggeshall,   Naomi   Collins,   Chas. 
P.  Cooper,  W.  A.  Conkey,  James 
Core,  C.   G.   Crane,  Jacob  Culver, 
H.  E.  Cushing,  A.  T.  Darrah,  R. 
C.  Fullenweider,  John  H.  Gardin- 
er, M.  Garst  A.  D.  Gillum,  - 
Goodman,  William   Goodwin,  Ab- 
bie  G.   Hall,  Lyman   Hall,  - 
Harmon,   J.    E.    Harmon,    G.    W. 
Hartman,   C.   C.   Hawes,     T.     M. 
Hess,    William    H.    Hess,      David 
Jennings,   S.   D.  Jerauld,     B.     D. 
Keator,  James  H.   Lyons,  D.     R. 
McKinney,    C.    B.    McClelland,   J. 
M.    McClure,   C.    H.   Mills,  J.   M. 
Minturn,  Benjamin  C.  Morris,     P. 
C.    Mosier,   John    North.      S.      K. 
Page,   J.   T.      Pearman,     Winston 
Somers,  S  .W.  Shumaker.  Harman 
Stevens,   -  Smith,      C.     A. 

Thompson,   Z.  T.  Whitmire. 


FIFTIETH    ANNUAL   BANQUET    OF   THE    CHAMPAIGN 
COUNTY   MEDICAL    SOCIETY 


1859" 

Dr.  J.  T.  Purcell,     Toastmaster. 

Our    Society    and    Its      Earliest 
Morning. 
Dr.  Charles  B.  Johnson. 

"The  voices  of  morning  how  sweet 

is  their  trill 
When  the  shadows     have     turned 

and  the  evening  is  still. 

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes. 


19O9 

Our  Society  and  Some  of  its  Yes- 
terdays. 

Dr.  Jacob  G.  Chambers, 
Dr.  William  Dillon, 
Dr.  Hartwell  C.  Howard, 
Dr.  Joseph  T.  Miller, 
Dr.  John   D.   Mandeville, 
Dr.  Samuel  Scott  Salisbury. 


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"And  ye  the  honor'd  sires  to  whom 
we  owe 

The  better  share  of  all  the  best  we 
know, — 

Speak  from  the  past,  and  say  what 
prize  was  sent 

To  crown  the  toiling  years  so  free- 
ly spent."  Holmes. 

Our  Society  Today 

Dr.  William  K.  Newcomb 

"Yes,  sharp  the     trials,  stern     the 

daily  tasks 
That  suffering  Nature     from     her 

servant  asks." 

Holmes. 

Our  Society  Tomorrow 

\    Dr.  John  Marten. 

|    Dr.  William  F.  Burres. 

"Our  tardy  art  shall  wear  an  an- 
gel's wings 

And  life  shall  lengthen  with  the  joy 
it  brings."  Holmes. 


Our  Society  and 
Gone  Before. 


Our      Brothers 


Dr.  James  M.  Bartholow 

"Nay!  count  not  our  numbers 
some  hundreds  we  know 

But  these  are  above  and  those  un- 
.  der  the  snow 

And  thoughts  are  still  mingled 
wherever  we  meet 

For  those  we  remember  and  these 
that  we  greet."  Holmes. 


Our  Society  as  Seen  by  Other 
Eyes. 

Hon.  W.  B.  McKinley. 
Hon.  Oliver  B.  Dobbins. 

"Sweet  is  the  scene  where  genial 
friendship  plays 

The  pleasant  game  of  interchang- 
ing praise."  Holmes. 

Our  Society  and  its  Nearest 
Neighbor — The  University  of 
Illinois. 

DR.  JONATHAN  T.  BURRELL  |  You'dknmo  he's 
DK.  STEPHEN  A.  FORBES         f«0X«£    *''* 

"The  True  Knight  of  Learning! — 
the  world  holds  him  dear, — 

Lord  bless  him,  Joy  crown  him, 
God  speed  his  career!" 

Holmes. 


THE    JULIA     F.     BURNHAM 

HOSPITAL. 

"The  idea  of  the  establishment 
of  a  general  hospital  in  Champaign 
had  its  origin  in  the  Social  Science 
Club  of  that  city  about  the  time  of 
the  World's  Fair  in  1893.  A.  C. 
Burnham,  whose  wife  was  a  promi- 
nent member  of  the  club,  gave  at 


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first  $10,000  for  a  building,  which 
sum  he  afterwards  increased  to 
$19,000.  J.  C.  Kirkpatrick  of- 
fered a  site  on  easy  terms  amount- 
ing to  a  gift  of  $1,000,  and  Mr. 
Burnham  applied  $1,500  of  his  gift 
to  secure  the  site.  The  Hospital 
Board  of  Directors  was  chosen 
from  the  Club,  and  in  due  time 
secured  a  charter  from  the  state, 
and  made  Mrs.  Burnham  its 
first  president.  It  was  the  wish  of 
her  husband,  the  principal  benefac- 
tor of  the  hospital,  that  it  should 
become  a  memorial  to  Mrs.  Burn- 
ham,  established  during  her  life- 
time. 

Later  an  auxiliary  organization 
was  formed,  called  the  Hospital 
association,  with  power  to  elect 
members  yearly  to  fill  vacancies  on 
the  Board,  and  with  this  Associa- 
tion rests  the  final  responsibility  of 
the  maintenance  of  the  Hos- 
pital. Mrs.  Burnham  died  before 
the  building  was  completed,  but  it 
was  opened  March  5,  1895,  and 
has  been  constantly  occupied 
since  that  time." 

Board  of  Directors. 

Mrs.   E.   S.   Clark, 

Mrs.  J.  J.  Dallenbach, 

Mrs.  S.  A.  Forbes, 

Mrs.    Isaac    Fielding, 

Mrs.  N.  M.  Harris, 

Mrs.  B.  McCormick, 

Mrs.  J.  L.  Polk, 

Mrs.  F.  D.  Rugg, 

Mrs.  A.  W.  Spalding. 
Officers. 

Mrs.  J.  L.  Polk,  President. 


Mrs.  N.  M.  Harris  and  Mrs.  F. 
D.    Rugg,    Vice-Presidents. 

Mrs.   B.   McCormick,   Secretary. 

Mrs.  A.  W.  Spalding,  Treasurer. 
Medical  Staff. 

Dr.  W.  F.  Burres, 

Dr.  C.  M.  Craig, 

Dr.  W.  L.  Gray, 

Dr.  C.  D.  Gulick, 

Dr.  W.  M.   Honn, 

Dr.  J.  S.  Mason, 

Dr.   W.   K.   Newcomb, 

Dr.  F.  H.  Powers, 

Dr.  W.  E.  Schowengerdt, 

Dr.  C.   H.   Spears, 

Dr.  A.  S.  WaH. 

Miss  Frances  North,  Superin- 
tendent. 

Miss  Mary  Uglow,  Superintend- 
ent of  Nurses. 

For  the  Julia  F.  Burnham  Hos- 
pital no  words  of  commendation 
are  necessary.  Since  its  establish- 
ment it  is  the  wonder  of  all  who 
give  the  matter  consideration,  how 
the  people  of  this  locality  managed 
to  get  along  all  these  years  with- 
out a  first-class  hospital. 


CHAMPAIGN  COUNTY  DOC- 
TORS  IN   POLITICS. 

Under  this  heading  may  be  in- 
cluded the  names  of  Drs.  E.  C. 
Bartholow,  James  Core,  James  H. 
Lyons,  J.  W.  Scroggs  and  L.  S. 
Wilcox. 

Dr.  Bartholow  was  elected  to 
the  Illinois  Legislature  in  1876 


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and  had  the  honor  of  assisting  in 
placing  on  the  Statute  books  the 
first  Illinois  Medical  Practice  Act 
which  went  into  effect  in  1877. 
He  was  a  resident  and  practitionei 
of  medicine  at  Mahomet  where  his 
death  occurred  in  the  last  decade 
of  the  Nineteenth  Century.  See 
biographical  sketches. 

Dr.  James  Core  of  Homer,  Illi- 
nois, was  elected  to  the  Illinois 
Legislature  in  1878  and  during  his 
term  rendered  faithful  and  efficient 
service.  His  death  occurred  in 
1888.  See  biographical  sketches. 

Dr.  James  H.  Lyons,  one  of  the 
first  physicians  in  Champaign 
County  and  the  first  to  locate  at 
Sidney,  was  elected  to  the  Illinois 
Legislature  in  1836  and  had  the 
honor  of  serving  with  Abraham 
Lincoln,  Stephen  A.  Douglas,  E. 
D.  Baker,  General  Shields,  Col. 


John  Hardin,  U.  F.  Linder  and 
other  men  of  marked  ability.  See 
Pioneer  doctors  in  Champaign 
County. 

Dr.  J.  W.  Scroggs  was  elected  to 
the  Illinois  Legislature  in  1868. 
He  did  his  part  in  securing  the  lo- 
cation of  the  University  of  Illinois 
in  Champaign  County.  Governor 
Oglesby  appointed  him  one  of  its 
first  trustees.  He  died  in  1874. 
See  biographical  sketches. 

Dr.  L.  S.  Wilcox  in  addition  to 
holding  a  number  of  local  offices, 
was  appointed  Revenue  Collector 
of  the  Springfield  District  by  Pres- 
ident Harrison  in  1889  and  served 
four  years.  In  1897  President  Mc- 
Kinley  appointed  him  Consul  at 
Hankow,  China,  a  position  he 
filled  acceptably  for  a  number  of 
years.  He  is  now  living  in  retire- 
ment at  Los  Angeles,  California. 
See  biographical  sketches. 


ILLINOIS    MEDICAL   PRACTICE    ACT 


Had  its  inception  in  Champaign 
County  in  1786,  centennial  year, 
the  Illinois  State  Medical  Socie- 
ty met  in  the  Twin  Cities  May  16, 
17  and  18.  The  sessions  of  the  So- 
ciety were  held  in  the  Chapel  of 
the  Main  University  Building. 

The  propriety  of  a  medical  prac- 
tice act  regulating  the  practice  of 
medicine  and  the  organization  of  a 
State  Board  of  Health  came  up  for 
consideration  the  last  day  of  the 
meeting.  And  after  being  fully 


discussed,  Dr.  S.  H.  Birney  of  Ur- 
bana,  moved  that  a  committee 
consisting  of  a  medical  man  from 
each  congressional  district  be  ap- 
pointed to  memorialize  the  Illinois 
Legislature  upon  the  urgent  need 
of  the  proposed  medical  legislation. 

Dr.  William  M.  Chambers  of 
Charleston,  offered  a  substitute 
that  after  receiving  some  modifi- 
cations read  as  follows: 

"Resolved,  That  a  committee  be 
appointed  to  memorialize  the  next 


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legislature  on  the  subject  of  the 
appointment  of  a  State  Board  of 
Health;  and  that  with  proper 
modifications  the  act  by  which  the 
Board  of  Health  of  Massachusetts 
was  inaugurated  be  submitted  to 
the  same  as  a  basis  for  the  Illinois 
State  Board. 

"Resolved,  That  as  members  o* 
the  State  Medical  Society,  each 
one  shall  consider  himself  bound 
to  urge  the  propriety  of  a  State 
Board  of  Health  upon  the  repre- 
sentatives from  his  district." 

The  Memorializing  Committee 
was  appointed  and  consisted  of  the 
following  physicians:  E.  W.  Gray 
of  Bloomington;  Wm.  M.  Cham- 
bers of  Charleston;  S..  H.  Birney 
of  Urbana;  Wm.  Massey  of  Paris; 
F.  B.  Haller  of  Vandalia. 

The  committee  did  its  work  well 
and  it  the  session  of  the  legislature 
of  1876-7  the  original  Illinois  Medi- 
cal Practice  Act  passed  both  hous- 


es, was  signed  by  Governor  Cullom 
and  speedily  became  the  law  of 
the  commonwealth. 

Champaign  County  was  fortun- 
ate in  having  in  the  legislature  at 
that  time  Dr.  E.  C.  Bartholow  of 
Mahomet  and  the  Hon.  R.  A. 
Bower  of  Tolono,  both  of  whom 
worked  assiduously  for  the  bill.  In 
due  time  Governor  Cullom  ap- 
pointed the  members  of  the  first 
Board  of  Health  and  upon  this 
Champaign  County  was  represent- 
ed by  J.  M.  Gregory,  LL.  D.* 
regent  of  the  university,  and  one  of 
the  recognized  leading  educators 
of  the  west.  Dr.  Gregory  did 
most  excellent  work  in  organizing 
and  putting  the  new  Board  on  its 
feet,  so  to  speak.  With  his  well 
known  versatility,  he  prepared 
several  excellent  papers  on  medi- 
cal education  and  sanitation.  Dur- 
ing his  term  of  service  he  was  hon- 
ored with  the  presidency  of  the 
board  for  two  years. 


CHAMPAIGN    COUNTY    DOCTORS    AND    THEIR 
SEVERAL    LOCATIONS 


Bondville — This  village  had  its 
origin  about  1870  and  was  named 
in  honor  of  L.  J.  Bond  of  Monti- 
cello,  an  officer  in  the  early  history 
of  the  railway  that  goes  through 
the  town.  The  first  physician  to 
locate  in  Bondville  was  Dr.  O.  B. 
Simmons,  who  came  there  in  the 
seventies  and  remained  till  1896, 


when  he  was  soon  after  succeeded 
by  Dr.  Homer  A.  Seymour,  who 
remained  till  about  1902,  when  he 
was  followed  by  Dr.  A.  J.  Foelsch 
who  practiced  there  till  1908,  when 
he  removed  to  Chicago.  Dr.  R.  P. 
Donovan  is  the  present  Bondville 
physician. 

Broadlands — This     village     was 


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laid  out  in  1883,  but  in  1881  Dr. 
W.  F.  Burres  practiced  medicine 
in  that  locality  and  had  his  office 
at  the  Old  Head  Quarters  House. 
Dr.  Burres  removed  to  Sidney  in 
1882  and  was  succeeded  at  his 
first  location  by  Dr.  George  T. 
Rowland,  who  was  there  during 
1882-3.  Dr.  Lon  Roberts  located 
at  Broadlands  in  1883,  but  did  not 
remain  long.  In  1883  Dr.  C.  A. 
Coffman  ca^ne  and  practiced  for 
about  three  years  when  he  re- 
moved elsewhere.  Dr.  T.  E. 
Walker  was  at  Broadlands  late  in 
the  nineties  for  a  short  time  only. 
Dr.  T  .A.  Dicks  came  in  1892  and 
at  this  writing  is  the  only  physician 
there. 

Champaign — The  original  part 
of  what  is  now  Champaign  City, 
was  platted  in  1853,  but  the  plat 
was  not  recorded  until  1855. 
There  seems  to  have  been  much 
discussion  over  the  choice  of 
a  name  for  the  proposed 
town.  Clarksfield,  Rantoul  and 
Urbana  City  were  in  turn  con- 
sidered. The  first  was  abandoned, 
Rantoul  was  given  to  the  now  well- 
known  village  fourteen  miles  north 
and  the  new  town  was  finally  in- 
corporated as  West  Urbana,  but 
the  plats  were  recorded  as  addi- 
tions to  Urbana.  The  station  for 
a  time  was  called  Urbana  and  the 
residents  of  Urbana  proper  for  n 
number  of  years  referred  to  the 
place  as  "the  Depot."  West  Ur- 
bana continued  to  be  the  name 


till  1860,  when  by  act  of  legislature 
it  was  changed  to  Champaign,  at 
which  time  it  may  be  said  the  new 
city  entered  on  its  career  prope~. 
The  first  physician  to  locate  in 
Champaign  was  Dr.  R.  W.  Shu- 
maker,  brother-in-law  to  Judge 
Calvin  C.  Staley.  November  9, 
1854,  Dr.  Schumacher  published 
a  card  in  the  Urbana  Union  an- 
nouncing his  new  location.  Dr. 
H.  C.  Howard  came  in  1855;  also 
Dr.  S.  W.  Kincaid,  who  remained 
but  a  few  years.  A  little  later 
came  Drs.  J.  Hollister,  S.  K. 
Page,  Joseph  Hagar,  C.  L.  Swain 
and  A.  J.  Crane.  Dr.  Page  con- 
tinued in  practice  till  advancing 
years  compelled  his  retirement  late 
in  the  seventies.  Dr.  C.  H.  Mills 
came  in  1856  and  remained  till  his 
death  in  1907.  Dr.  J.  T.  Pearman 
located  in  Champaign  in  1864  and 
remained  in  active  practice  ti1! 
about  a  year  and  a  half  before  his 
death  in  May,  1896. 

Dr.  R.  H.  Huddlestone  located 
in  Champaign  in  the  early  seven- 
ties and  remained  in  active  prac- 
tice till  about  1878,  when  he  r*1- 
moved  to  Florida.  Dr.  L.  S.  Wil- 
cox  came  in  1875  and  was  in  active 
professional  work  till  1889,  when 
he  became  the  district  revenue  col- 
lector. Dr.  Lyman  Hall  removed 
from  Savoy  to  Champaign  in  1887 
where  he  continued  to  reside  till 
bis  death  in  1892.  Dr.  D.  A. 
Cheev.er  located  in  Champaign  in 
1870,  continued  in  active  practice 


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till  1877,  when  he  was  succeeded 
by  Dr.  T.  J.  Merryman,  who  re- 
mained till  1885.  Dr.  C.  D.  Ttif- 
ford  came  in  1879  and  continued 
in  practice  about  six  years 
when  he  was  followed  by  Dr.  P. 
S.  Replogle.  In  1890  Dr.  Abbie  G. 
Hall  located  in  Champaign  and 
practiced  till  her  death  in  1898. 
Dr.  H.  E.  Gushing  came  in  1884 
and  practiced  till  his  death  in  1906. 

Following  is  a  list  of  physicians 
now  in  Champaign  with  dates  of 
their  arrival:  Craig,  C.  M.,  1899: 
Cogswell,  G.  E.,  1902;  Dodds,  J 
C.,  1900;  Davis,  C.  S.,  1902; 
Finch,  J.  K..  1895;  Gray,  W.  L., 
1891;  Haley,  H.  A.,  1882!  Howard, 
H.  C.,  1855;  Hough,  C.  F.,  1894: 
Honn,  W.  M.,  1900;  Johnson, 
Charles  B.,  1879;  Kratz.  E  A., 
1869.;  Lyons,  Jennie,  1903:  Mande- 
ville,  J.  D..  1900;  Miner,  Ellen, 
1896;  Mills,  C.  H.,  1857:  New- 
corhb,  C.  F..  1904;  Newcomb.  W. 
K.,  1896:  Osbofne,  J.  W.,  1906, 
Powers.  F.  H.,  1900,  Rice,  Gordan 
W.  1907;  Schowengerdt,  W.  E.. 
1897:  Spears,  Charles  H.,  1890; 
Shurtz,  R.  E.,  1898;  Shurtz,  S.  W., 
1899;  Rudy.  E.  G.,  1904:  Wall,  A. 
S.;  1896;  Wilson,  H.  Y.,i9o6;  Kar- 
ih-er,  H.  C.,  1908;  Kirby,  Darwin 
1909;  Zorger,  Annie  L.,  1895:  Zor- 
ger,  W.  H.,  1895. 

Dewey — This  is  one  of  the  new- 
est villages  of  the  county.  Dr 
Beard  was  its  first  physician  and 
located  there  about  1888,  but  did 


not  remain  long  and  after  him 
came  in  succession  Drs.  Bailey, 
Templeton,  R.  P.  Dowd,  "A.  Chen- 
oweth  and  one  Dr.  Heath,  who 
did  not  long  remain.  Dr.  Samuel 
Donovan  is  the  present  Dewey 
representative  of  the  profession. 

Fisher — Dr.  James  G.  Elder  was 
the  first  physician  in  this  place.  He 
yet  resides  there,  but  is  now  out 
of  practice.  Dr.  Joseph  Carr  was 
the  next,  but  did  not  remain  long. 
About  1880  Dr.  A.  L.  Elder  prac- 
ticed there  for  a  time,  when  he 
removed  to  Nebraska.  Dr.  W.  K. 
Newcomb  located  in  Fisher  and 
continued  in  active  practice  there 
till  1896,  when  he  removed  to 
Champaign.  Dr.  S.  W.  Shurtz  be- 
gan the  practice  of  medicine  there 
in  1893  and  continued  till  1899, 
when  he  changed  his  location  to 
Champaign.  Thtr  present  physi- 
cians of  Fisher  are  Dr.  R.  P.  Dowd 
who  came  in  1896,  Dr.  L.  O.  Sale 
in  1898  and  Dr.  J.  G.  Lamb,  a  re- 
cent arrival. 

Foosland — The  first  physician  in 
this  village  was  one  Dr.  Stephens, 
who  about  1870,  was  succeeded  by 
Dr.  H.  L.  Harris,  who  practiced 
there  for  a  number  of  years,  when 
he  in  turn  was  followed  by  Dr. 
A.  C.  Albright.  In  1892  Dr.  J.  E. 
Lowry,  who  is  yet  at  Foosland, 
became  the  successor  of  Dr.  Al- 
bright, but  later  removed  to  Ho- 
mer. Dr.  Frederick  H.  York  and 


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W.  P.  Scott  are  Foosland's  present 
physicians. 

Gifford — This  village  was  laid 
out  in  1876  and  was  named  in  hon- 
or of  Benjamin  Gifford.  The  first} 
doctor  in  the  place  was  Dr.  Sal- 
mons^ who  remained  but  a  short 
time.  He  was  followed  by  Dr.  T. 
J.  Berry.  Later  came  Dr.  W.  Van 
Camp  and  in  1877  Dr.  D.  R.  Mc-j 
Kinney,  who  practiced  medicine^ 
there  for  about  twenty  years  and 
then  went  to  Indiana.  In 
1883  Dr.  T.  J.  McKinney,  son 
of  Dr.  D.  R.  McKinney,  located, 
at  Gifford  and  is  now  actively  iiu 
practice  there.  So  likewise  is  Dr.^ 
T.  E.  Walker  who,  save  for  a  brief 
interval,  has  been  a  resident  of  the  /. 
village  a  number  of  years.  In 
1894  came  Dr.  R.  E.  Shurtz,  who 
remained  two  years  and  then  re- 
moved to  Champaign. 

Homer — Old  Homer  situated 
on  the  creek  about  a  mile  north  of 
the  Homer  of  today,  was  first  set- 
tled in  1835.  Dr.  Harmon  Stevens 
was  one  of  the  earliest  physicians 
to  locate  in  Champaign  county. 
When  the  Wabash  railway  was 
built  through  the  southern  part  of 
Champaign  county  in  1857  New 
Homer  came  into  existence  at  the 
Railway  Station,  a  mile  south  of 
Old  Homer,  and  the  last  named 
village  soon  passed  oiiT  of  exist- 
ence. Dr.  Stevens  at  once  remov- 
ed to  the  new  village  and  prac- 


ticed medicine  there  a  good  many 
years  till  his  removal  to  Newton, 
111.  In  1840  Dr.  W.  A.  Conkey  lo- 
cated in  Old  Homer  and  continued 
in  practice  there  till  1850,  when  he 
retired  permanently.  In  1851  Dr. 
C.  P.  Mosier  came  to  Homer  and 
five  years  later  removed  to  the  new 
town  site,  but  all  the  while  he  con- 
tinued in  active  practice  till  his 
retirement  in  1859  to  engage  in 
farming  and  other  pursuits.  In 
1853  Dr.  James  Core  arrived  in 
Old  Homer  and  engaged  in  prac- 
tice and  removed  to  the  new  vil- 
lage at  its  beginning  and  contin- 
ued the  practice  till  his  death  in 
1888.  In  1853  came  Dr.  T.  M. 
Jiess  also,  who  engaged  in  the 
practice  of  his  profession  in  the 
old  town  till  the  new  one  was 
started,  when  he  removed  thi.ther 
and  continued  to  answer  calls  till 
his  removal  to  Warren  County 
early  in  the  eighties.  George  T. 
Rowland  succeeded  Dr.  Core  and 
continued  in  practice  till  late  in 
the  nineties  when  he  removed  -to 
Clark  County,  where  he  is  yet 
practicing.  Dr.  H.  N.  Baker  came 
in  1906  and  remained  till  1909 
when  he  removed  to  Danville,  I1J. 
Following  is  a  list  of  physicians 
in  Homer  with  dates  of  their  loca- 
tion as  near  as  can  be  ascertained: 
Dr.  Joseph  Brayshaw,  1902;  Dr.  J. 
E.  Lowery,  Dr.  H.  A.  Shaw,  1866; 
Dr.  A.  L.  Volborn. 


Ivesdale — This  village,  just  with- 


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in  the  borders  of  Champaign  Coun- 
ty, dates  its  origin  from  about 
1864,  and  is  named  for  a  Mr.  Ives, 
who  owned  a  tract  of  land  in  its 
vicinity.  The  writer  has  not  been 
able  to  ascertain  much  of  its  early 
medical  history,  but  among  tha 
physicians  who  have  practiced 
there  may  be  named  Drs.  W.  F. 
Benefield,  C.  M.  Craig,  M.  A. 
Morgan,  C.  M.  Bailey  and  H.  P. 
Mack  and  L.  H.  Smith. 

Dr.  Samuel  J.  Hicks  is  Ives- 
dale's  physician  at  the  present 
time. 

Longview — This  village  was  laid 
out  in  1883  and  the  first  physician 
to  locate  there  was  Dr.  R.  P.  Ratts. 
Dr.  A.  J  Garrison  located  there 
for  a  time,  but  recently  removed 
elsewhere.  Dr.  Ratts  is  yet  in  ac- 
tive practice  at  Longview. 

Ludlow — This  village,  at  first 
called  Pera,  had  its  origin  in  the 
fifties.  The  first  physician  to  lo- 
cate there  was  one  Dr.  Emmons. 
His  immediate  successors  are  not 
known  to  the  writer,  indeed,  it  has 
not  been  possible  to  gather  much 
of  the  medical  history  of  this  vil- 
lage. Dr.  M.  A.  Glennan  prac- 
ticed in  Ludlow  for  a  number  of 
years  prior  to  his  death  in  1902. 
Dr.  H.  J.  Moreland  came  to  the 
village  in  1906  and  has  since  been 
actively  engaged  in  practice. 

Mahomet — The  first  physician 
to  locate  in  Mahomet  was  Dr.  N. 
H.  Adams,  who  opened  an  office 


there  in  1843.  He  remained  there 
twelve  or  fifteen  years,  when  he 
died.  About  1846  Dr.  C.  C.  Hawes 
came  to  Mahomet  and  continued 
practice  there  till  his  death  in  1872. 
Early  in  the  fifties,  Dr.  C.  L.  Crane 
located  in  Mahomet,  where  he  re- 
mained till  his  death  in  1856,  the 
result  of  injuries  received  by  the 
bursting  of  an  anvil  that  was  fired 
on  the  Fourth  of  July.  Dr.  A.  J. 
Crane,  a  brother  of  the  foregoing, 
also  practiced  medicine  there  in 
the  fifties. 

Dr.  W.  W.  Walters  located  in 
Mahomet  in  1855  and  remained 
five  years.  Dr  J.  D.  Culver  came 
to  this  village  about  1857  and  re- 
mained in  practice  there  till  his 
death  in  1890.  One  Dr.  Clark 
practiced  medicine  in  Mahomet  a 
few  years  following  1871,  when  he 
removed  to  Mansfield. 

Dr.John  D.  Gardiner  locat- 
ed and  practiced  medicine  there 
during  the  latter  part  of  the  fifties 
and  the  early  .sixties.  His  son,  Dr. 
John  H.  Gardiner  came  to  Ma- 
homet in  the  early  seventies  and 
practiced  till  his  death,  Aug.  22, 
1902.  Dr.  A.  S.  Wall  located  in 
Mahomet  in  1890  and  practiced 
till  1896,  when  he  removed  to 
Champaign.  Dr.  C.  T.  Wilson  be- 
gan practice  in  1890  and  still 
shares  the  business  with  his  com- 
petitor, Dr.  J.  O.  Pearman,  who 
succeeded  Dr.  Gardiner  in  1902. 

Ogden — This  village  was  laid 
out  in  1870  and  took  its  name  from 


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a  family  in  the  neighborhood.  The 
first  physician  to  locate  there  was 
Dr.  Edward  Tourtellette.  who 
came  in  1870.  but  a  year  later  he 
died.  In  1871  Dr.  Job  S.  Cogge- 
shall  located  there  and  engaged  in 
practice  till  his  death.  Sept.  id.. 
1902.  Dr.  Freeman  P.  French  lo- 
cated at  Ogden  in  the  seventies, 
and  remained  a  number  of  years. 
Dr.  James  F.  Harris  came  in  1883 
and  is  yet  there  in  active  practice. 
Dr.  Omar  H.  Rees  came  in  1901 
and  has  since  been  in  active  work. 

Pesotum — Dr.  E.  I.  Birdsell  was 
the  first  physician  to  locate  in  this 
village,  arriving  there  late  in  1869. 
A  little  later  one  Dr.  Xichols  prac- 
ticed medicine  there  for  a  time,-  as 
did  also  one  Dr.  Oatlev. 

Dr.  John  A.  Hoffman  came  to 
Pesotum  a  good  many  vears  ago 
and  has  always  been  very  busv 
Dr.  Z.  E.  Mathenv  came  a  number 
of  years  later  and  after  some  prac- 
tice went  elsewhere.  Dr.  Hilgen- 
berg  is  now  an  active  practitioner 
of  the  village. 

Penfield — Penfield  was  laid  out 
in  1876  and  takes  its  name  from 
John  Penfield  of  Rantonl.  111.  The 
first  doctor  to  locate  in  the  village 
was  Dr.  M.  M.  Hazel:  the  next  Dr. 
W.  S.  Higgins  and  Dr.  \V.  Van- 
Camp:  also  Dr.  P.  E.  Cole.  Of 
these  Dr.  Higgins  is  dead,  and  Dr. 
Cole  is  in  LeMars.  Iowa.  In  1894 
came  Dr.  J.  S.  Mason,  who  re- 
mained till  1809.  when  he  was  suc- 


ceeded by  Dr.  C.  H.  Zorger,  who 
removed  to  Rantoul.  Dr.  J.  W- 
Moreland  came  m  1906  and  is  yet 
there. 

Philo — The  village  of  Philo  was 
laid  out  in  1864  by  E.  B.  Hall,  son 
of  Philo  Hall.from  whose  Christian 
name  both  the  village  and  town- 
ship are  named.  The  first  phvsi- 
cian  to  locate  in  Philo  was  Dr.  B. 

C.  Morris:  the  next  one  was  Dr. 
Hall,  whom  Dr.  James  M.  Bartho- 
low  succeeded  in  1869.  Dr.  Barth- 
olow  remained  in   Philo  till    1895, 
when  he  sold  out  to  Dr.  Robert  F 
L.Jessee.who  is  now  in  active  prac- 
tice in  that  place.     In  March.  1868 
Dr.  John  D.  Mandeville  located  in 
Philo  and  continued  in  active  prac- 
tice here  till   1900.     when  he  was 
succeeded  by  Dr.  James  M.  Tins- 
ley,  who  recently  removed  to  Ran- 
toul.    In   1808  Dr.  Joseph  Schue- 
hich  began   the   practice  of  medi- 
cine in  Philo  and  is  yet  there. 

Rantoul — The  village  of  Rantoul 
as  well  as  the  township  in  which  it 
is  located,  takes  its  name  from 
Robert  Rantoul.  one  of  the  origin- 
al stockholders  and  charter  mem- 
bers of  the  Illinois  Central  rail- 
road corporation.  Rantoul  was 
first  settled  in  1855-6.  The  first 
physician  to  locate  there  was  Dr. 

D.  M.  Marshall  who  came  in  1856 
and    remained    till    1860,      Dr.    T. 
Sweat  located  in  Rantoul  in   1857 
and  continued  in  practice  there  till 
his  death  ten  vears  later. 


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About  1860  came  from  Indiana, 
one  Dr.  New,  who  remained  only 
one  year.  About  this  time  and 
later  came  Drs.  D.  B.  George, 
Hazel,  Clark,  Hobart,  Garrison, 
Boise  and  Ferris.  Dr.  John  North 
located  in  Rantoul  in  1865  and  Dr. 
D.  P.  McClure  in  1870.  Dr.  North 
practiced  medicine  there  till  about 
1878  and  then  went  west.  Dr.  Mc- 
Clure did  a  good  business  till  1887, 
when  his  health  gave  way.  Dr. 
Charles  E.  Triplet  was  in  Rantoul 
for  several  years  following  the 
early  seventies;  Dr.  Roy  Taylor 
for  two  or  three  years,  when  he 
removed.  Dr.  J.  E.  Harman 
came  in  1874  and  remained  till  his 
death  in  1906. 

Dr.  J.  M.  Minturn  practiced  in 
Rantoul  from  about  1884  till  1890, 
when  failing  health  compelled  his 
retirement.  Dr.  W.  J.  Fernauld 
located  in  Rantoul  in  1890  and  re- 
mained till  about  1900,  when  he  re- 
moved to  Frankfort,  Ind.  Dr 
John  Laughlin  came  in  1890  and 
remained  till  1900  when  he  re- 
tired and  made  his  home  in  In- 
diana. Dr.  J.  S.  Mason  carnc  in 
18149  and  was  in  practice  till  191.16, 
<vhen  he  changed  his  location  to 
Urbana 

Following  is  the  present  rO'l  of 
Rantoul  physicians:  Brewer,  E. 
M.,  1900;  Diller,  F.  S.,  1906;  Tins- 
ley.  J.  M.,  1908:  Zorger,  Charles 
H..  1906. 

Sadorus — This   village   was   laid 


off  about  1856  and  in  that  year 
came  its  first  physician  Dr.  A.  Ca- 
tron.  who  yet  lives  there  in  oKi  xgc, 
li.it  retired  from  active  practice.  In 
1869  Dr.  J.  G.  Chambers  located 
there  and  practiced  a  number  of 
years,  when  he  removed  to  his 
farm  in  Sadorus  township,  where 
he  yet  lives.  Early  in  the  seventies 
Dr.  A.  D.  Gillum  located  in  Sado- 
rus and  remained  there  till  his 
death  some  years  ago.  A  contem- 
porary of  Dr.  Gillum  was  Dr.  L. 
M.  Lee,  who  practiced  in  Sadorus 
a  few  years,  but  removed  to  anoth- 
er location  about  1877. 

Dr.  Frank  L.  Birney,  son  of  Dr. 
S.  H.  Birney  located  in  Sadorus 
and  remained  two  years  in  the 
eighties  and  went  from  there  to 
Denver  in  1888.  He  was  succeeded 
by  Dr.  W.  H.  Zorger,  who  re- 
mained till  1894.  Dr.  C.  P.  Hoff- 
man came  to  Sadorus  several  years 
ago.  but  later  removed  to  Dan- 
ville. 111.,  as  an  eye  and  ear  spe- 
cialist. Dr.  Arthur  G.  Lewis  has 
been  in  practice  many  years  in  Sa- 
dorus and  Dr.  F.  C.  Renfrew  since 
1903. 

Seymour  dates  its  beginning 
from  about  1870.  The  first  doctors 
to  locate  there  were  Dr.  J.  M. 
Hadden  and  one  Dr.  Clark.  Dr. 
Clark  did  not  continue  the  practice 
long  and  has  since  died.  He  has 
been  succeeded  by  a  number 
of  men,  but  none  remained  long. 
Dr.  Hadden  is  yet  in  active  prac- 


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tice.  Dr.  H.  C.  Kariher  came  in 
1903  and  remained  till  1908  when 
he  moved  to  Champaign.  Recent- 
ly came  Dr.  W.  P.  Donovan. 

Sidney  was  the  site  of  an  old  In 
dian  trail  and,  located  on  a  moder- 
ately high  and  well-drained  bluff 
on  the  south  bank  of  the  Salt  Fork', 
is  a  rather  old  and  interesting  land- 
mark. A  company  or  more  of  sol- 
diers had  been  encamped  on  the 
hill  in  the  east  side  of  the  pres- 
ent village,  some  time  before  the 
earliest  settlement  as  attested  by 
the  certain  remains  of  an  old  camp 
described  by  the  oldest  settlers  of 
this  locality. 

Excluding  the  "medicine  men" 
of  the  Indian  tribes,  who  were  no 
doubt  frequent  visitors  to  this 
spot  and  possibly  a  doctor  in  the 
employ  of  the  Government,  the 
first  doctor  to  practice  his  profes- 
sion in  the  eastern  part  of  Cham- 
paign county  was  Dr.  Lyons,  who 
was  an  eastern  gentleman  of  some 
ability  and  refined  tastes.  He  evi- 
dently had  great  hopes  for  the  fu- 
ture of  his  location,  for  it  was  he  in 
connection  with  a  Mr.  Davis,  who 
laid  off  the  original  village  of  Sid- 
ney, the  name  being  given  in  hon- 
or of  Miss  Sidney  Davis,  the  eldest 
daughter  of  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  village.  He  also  designed  a 
very  large  park,  a  part  of  which  is 
now  the  public  school  grounds, 
the  remainder  long  ago  having 
Leen  sold  in  town  lots.  He  de- 
voted some  time  at  least  to  train 


ing  horses,  as  he  had  built  for  his 
use  a  training  track  and  barn.  The 
old  track  was  southeast  of  Sidney 
one-half  mile.  The  doctor  sold  all 
his  interests  later  to  J.  R.  C.  Jones 
and  then  moved  to  Texas,  where 
he  was  visited  by  friends  'n  1865, 
who  found  that  he  had  been  elect- 
ed ;•-  the  legislature  in  that  slato. 

For  some  years  after  the  depart- 
ure of  Dr.  Lyons  the  practice  ;n 
:he  locality  was  done  by  Dr^.  Con- 
key  and  Mosier  of  Old  Homer.  In 
the  early  5o's  Dr.  Hartman  and 
Dr.  Joseph  Goodman  came  to  try, 
their  fortunes  with  the  new  town. 
Dr.  Goodman  was  there  when  the 
Township  was  organized  in  1860, 
and  was  the  first  Supervisor  of 
Sidney  Township.  The  old  records 
of  the  office  would  indicate  that 
he  was  a  man  of  fair  ability. 
About  this  time  Dr.  Ashby  came 
to  the  town  and  was  connected 
with  Dr.  Goodman  in  practice.  He 
did  not  remain  very  long  and  for 
some  reason  not  recorded  he  left 
rather  suddenly,  and  was  succeed- 
ed by  a  young  man,  Dr.  F.  A. 
White,  who  practiced  medicine 
there  in  1857-8.  He  was  a  brother 
of  Attorney  S.  F.  White  of  Ur- 
bana.  The  young  doctor  was  a 
strong  and  noisy  Abolitionist  and 
also  a  convert  to  the  Mormon 
church.  He  was  not  pleased  with 
the  surroundings  at  Sidney  and  in 
spite  of  the  solicitations  of  friends 
he  closed  his  office  and  left  the  vil- 
lage. Twenty-five  years  after  that 


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his  friends  were  notified  of  his 
death  in  Salt  Lake  City.  Dr.  Good- 
man enlisted  in  the  Army:  return- 
ing at  the  close  of  the  war  he 
moved  to  Coles,  where  he  re- 
mained only  a  short  time,  going 
from  there  to  Iowa,  where  he  died 
about  1877  or  1878. 

Dr.  H.  S.  Hickman  came  to  Sid- 
ney about  1859  and  practiced  with 
Dr.  Hartman.  In  the  beginning  of 
the  war  of  the  Rebellion  he  was 
among  the  first  to  enlist,  being  a 
private  in  Co.  I,  2nd  Illinois  Cav- 
alry. He  served  to  the  close  oij 
the  war,  and,  on  his  return,  finding 
the  field  of  medicine  well  filled  at 
the  place,  went  to  Newman,  111., 
where  he  practiced  for  twenty 
years  then  moving  to  the  new  town 
of  Longview,  remained  but  a  short 
time,  when  he  moved  to  Wichita," 
Kan. 

Dr.  Wesley  Lawson  came  just 
after  the  war  and  began  his  ca- 
reer as  a  medical  man  in  the  quiet 
village  of  Sidney.  He  came  from 
Pennsylvania,  having  served  in  the 
Union  army  as  a  member  of  a  com- 
pany doing  duty  in  the  signal  ser- 
vice. The  doctor  did  not  remain 
very  long,  however,  going  from 
here  to  Homer,  where  he  has  lived 
ever  since. 

Dr.  W.  S.  Duncan  was  practic- 
ing medicine  at  the  beginning  of 
the  war  and  entered  the  loth  Illi- 
nois cavalry  as  an  assistant  sur- 


geon. He  served  to  the  close  of 
the  war  and  like  many  others 
came  home  to  find  the  conditions 
changed,  and  he  soon  decided  to 
change  his  location.  He  moved  to 
Vigo  County,  Indiana,  where  he 
remained  for  several  years;  then  he 
went  to  southern  Illinois,  practic- 
ing with  varying  success,  until 
1889  he  again  decided  to  locate  in 
the  town  of  his  first  love,  and 
moved  back  to  Sidney.  He  re- 
mained two  years  and  then  went 
to  Hutton,  Coles  county,  and  later 
to  Casey,  111.  He  recently  retired 
from  practice  at  the  age  of  84 
years.  The  doctor  was  a  faithful 
member  of  the  Masonic  and  Odd 
[Fellows  lodges  and  of  the  Grand 
JA.rmy  of  the  Republic.  In  relig- 
ous  views  he  was  a  Seven  Day  Ad- 
Ventist. 

Dr.  Harmon  located  in  Sidney 
in  1866  or  1868  and  remained  for 
five  or  six  years.  He  owned  a  drug 
store  and  later  an  interest  in  a 
good  farm,  two  miles  southeast  of 
Sidney.  On  deciding  to  leave  the 
locality  he  disposed  of  his  farm  in 
a  novel  way — by  issuing  lottery 
tickets  with  one  chance  for  the 
farm.  He  had  no  trouble  to  dis- 
pose of  them  at  good  figures.  He 
moved  west  in  1873  or  1874.  Dr. 
Smith  located  here  not  long  after 
the  war  and  practiced  actively  tin 
til  his  death  in  1877.  The  doctor 
was  a  graduate  of  the  Cincinnati 
Electic  Medical  College:  He 


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was  quite  well  liked,  was  very  suc- 
cessful as  a  physician  and  a  finan- 
cier. 

Dr.  S.  D.  Jerauld  came  to  Sicl- 
ned  in  the  spring-  of  1858,  having 
a  good  practice  when  the  war 
broke  out.  Three  sons  enlisted, 
William,  Walter  Hall  and  T.  D. 
Jerauld.  William  was  killed  at 
Vicksburg,  Walter  Hall  was  a 
prisoner  at  Andersonville,  Ga,,  and 
died  while  a  prisoner.  T.  D.  Jer- 
auld, the  youngest,  returned  after 
the  close  of  the  war  and  was  dis- 
charged January  6,  1866.  Dr.  S. 
L.  Jerauld  contracted  quick  con- 
sumption going  south  after  his 
son,  William,  who  was  killed.  Died 
April  5,  1865. 

The  above  historical  details  of 
medicine  in  Sidney  are  from  th<* 
pen  of  Dr.  W.  F.  Burres.  who  for 
many  years  practiced  there  before 
moving  to  Urbana.  Dr.  J.  M.  Law- 
son  came  in  1885  and  is  yet  busy 
in  practice.  Dr.  E.  W.  Kinchelor 
came  in  1899,  practiced  a  number 
of  years,  and  emigrated  to  Okla- 
homa. 

St.  Joseph — St.  Joseph  had  its 
beginning  about  1870,  that  is,  the 
present  or  New  St.  Joseph  had. 
But  its  predecessor,  Old  St.  Jo- 
seph, had  its  beginning  about  1856 
and  was  located  a  mile  south  of 
the  present  St.  Joseph  and  when 
the  latter  came  into  existence  there 
was  no  longer  need  for  the  old  vil- 


lage. St.  Joseph  derives  its  name 
from  the  first  town  of  that  name 
and  the  latter  was  named  in  hon- 
or of  Joseph  Kelly,  who  for  many 
years  kept  an  old-time  country 
tavern  at  what  became  the  site  of 
Old  St.  Joseph.  It  is  related  that 
a  guest  of  Landlord  Kelly  was  so 
well  treated  by  the  latter  in  an 
early  day  that  his  heart  was  filled 
with  gratitude  and  he  was  deter- 
mined to  bestow  some  especial  fa- 
vor upon  his  benefactor  and  being 
a  man  of  some  political  influence, 
induced  the  authorities  at  Wash- 
ington to  establish  a  postoffice  at 
the  tavern  of  Joseph  Kelly  and  that 
in  honor  of  the  latter  it  was  hence- 
forth known  as  St.  Joseph.  Pos- 
sibly Landlord  Kelly  came  to  the 
conclusion  that  "he  had  entertain- 
ed an  angel  unawares." 

The  first  physician  to  locate  at 
Old  St.  Joseph  was  Dr.  James 
Gillespie  and  the  next  Dr.  An- 
thony Doyle  and  a  little  later  Dr. 
George  Doyle.  Dr.  William  Good 
win  was  also  there  for  a  time. 
Later  came  Dr.  David  Jennings. 

As  before  intimated  it  was  abont 
1870  that  old  things  in  tlrs  region 
passed  away  and  new  things  came 
abont  when  Old  St.  Joseph  gave 
away  to  New  St.  Joseph.  In  the 
latter  village  Dr.  David  Jennings 
was  the  first  physician  to  locate 
and  Dr.  W.  B.  Sims  the  next,  both 
of  whom  came  about  1870.  Later 
came  one  Dr.  Marion  who  did  not 


remain  many  years.  In  1877  Dr. 
N.  B.  Sims,  son  of  Dr.  W.  B.  Sims, 
joined  his  father  in  practice  in  St. 
Joseph  and  continued  there  for  a 
period  of  about  twenty  years,  when 
he  removed  to  Danville.  Early  in 
1877  Dr.  J.  T.  Purcell  located  in 
the  village  and  has  since  beeu 
there.  About  1897  Dr  J.  N.  Rees 
came  to  St.  Joseph,  and  Dr.  A.  J. 
Dalton  more  recently. 

Tolono — This  vjllage  dates  its 
origin  from  about  1856.  The  first 
physician  to  locate  there  was  Dr. 
Herman  Chaffee,  who  built  the 
fourth  frame  house  erected  in  the 
place.  Dr.  Chaffee  remained 
there  till  his  death  in  1900.  About 
1857  Dr.  B.  D.  Keator  came  to 
Tolono  and  continued  in  active 
practice  till  1878,  when  he  re- 
moved to  Missouri.  About  1872 
or  1873  Dr.  James  T.  Logan.an  ec- 
centric character,  located  in  To- 
lono and  for  seven  or  eight  years 
did  quite  a  practice.  In  1861  Dr. 
S.  S.  Salisbury  arrived  in  Tolono 
and  at  the  age  of  eighty  year? 
is  yet  in  active  practice  in  that  vil- 
lage. In  1865  Dr.  A.  T.  Darrah 
came  to  Tolono  and  began  the 
practice  of  medicine  and  continued 
it  till  his  removal  to  Bloomington 
in  1883.  In  1874  Dr.  C.  B.  John- 
son removed  to  Tolono  from  Crit- 
tenden  Township,  where  he  had 
practiced  three  years,  and  answer- 
ed professional  calls  till  his  remov- 
al to  Champaign  in  April,  1879.  In 
1879  Dr.L.K.Lamb  came  to  Tolo- 
no and  practiced  till  1892,  when  he 


was  succeeded  by  Dr.  J.  C.  Doods, 
who  practiced  there  till  1901,  when 
he  removed  to  Champaign.  In 
1886  Dr.  C.  M.  Craig  located  in 
Tolono  and  continued  in  general 
practice  till  1899,  when  he  removed 
to  Champaign.  Dr.  H.  E.  Dunlop 
came  in  1900  and  remained  onK 
about  one  year.  Dr.  S.  A.  Crab- 
tree  came  in  1901,  practiced  a  num- 
ber of  years  and  removed  else- 
where. Following  is  the  list  of  To- 
lono physicians  at  this  writing: 
Dr.  S.  S.  Salisbury,  1861 ;  Dr.  John 
Marten,  1897;  Dr.  W.  P.  Tinsley, 
1907. 

Urbana — As  noted  elsewhere  Ur- 
bana  was  designated  as  the  County 
Seat  of  Champaign  County  early  in 
1833,  but  prior  to  this  date  had 
been  a  village  of  only  a  few  hous- 
es. Dr.  John  S.  Saddler  located 
in  Urbana  in  1839  and  was  the 
first  doctor  to  make  his  home 
there,  but  he  remained  only  a  few 
years.  Dr.  Winston  Somers  came 
in  1840  and  continued  to  practice 
medicine  till  his  death  in  1871.  Dr. 
William  D.  Somers,  brother  of  Dr. 
Winston  Somers.  located  in  Ur- 
bana about  the  same  time  and  the 
brothers  were  partners  till  Dr.  W. 
D.  in  1847,  abandoned  medicine 
for  the  law.  In  the  fifties  came 
Drs.  T.  F.  Snyder,  J.  T.  Miller, 
James  Hollister,  C.  H.  Mills,  C. 
A.  Thompson,  M.  B.  Thompson, 
Joseph  Hager,  M.  Lindley,  and 
W.M.  Goodwin.  Drs. Hollister  and 
Mills  removed  to  Champaign  in 


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1856.  Dr.  C.  A.  Thompson  re- 
moved to  Jefferson  City,  Mo.,  at 
the  end  of  the  civil  war.  Dr.  M. 
B.  Thompson  abandoned  medicine 
for  the  law  very  early  in  the  six- 
ties. Dr.  Hager  did  not  remain 
long.  Dr.  W.  M.  Goodwin  con- 
tinued in  practice  till  about  1878, 
when  he  went  west.  Late  in  the 
fifties  Dr.  M.  S.  Brown  located 
and  began  the  practice  of  medicine 
in  Urbana  and  continued  till  his 
removal  to  Danville  in  1884,  where 
he  died  later.  Dr.  S.  H.  Birney 
came  to  Urbana  during  the  civil 
war  and  practiced  there  till  about 
1887,  when  he  removed  to  Den- 
ver, where  he  remained  till  1899, 
when  he  returned  to  Urbana  in 
broken  health  and  died  in  that  city 
July  i,  1900.  For  a  few  years  in  the 
eighties  Dr.  F.  D.  Prentice  prac- 
ticed medicine  in  Urbana.  He  5s 
now  in  the  west.  Drs.  C.  N.  and 
J.  E.  White  came  to  Urbana  and 
after  practicing  about  twenty  years : 
removed  to  Springfield.  Dr.  John 
W.  Fuqua  came  in  1895,  practiced 
about  ten  years  and  then  went  else- 
where. 

Following  is  a  list  of  physicians 
now  in  Urbana,  with  dates  of  lo- 
cation: 

Allen,  J.  R.,  1908;  Baker,  Nellie 
M.,  1906;  Bartholow,  J.  M.,  1895; 
Burres,  W.  F.,  1900;  Dillon,  Wm., 
1900;  Gulick,  C.  D.,  1902;  Han- 
more,  J.  J.,  1906;  Hughes,  Jennie, 
1899;  Lindley,  A.  M.,  1880;  Lind- 


ley,  Mahlon,  1857;  Martinie,  Chas. 
W.,  1898;  Miller,  H.  W.,  1889; 
Miller,  J.  T.,  1853;  Morrison,  Jas. 
E.,  1880;  Munsell,  W.  W.,  1901; 
Nichols,  Chas  A.,  1896;  Sims,  W. 
B.,  1883;  Smith,  E.  S.,  1896; 
Stanley  O.  O.,  1908;  Van  Doren, 
C.  L.,  1900;  Yantis,  D.  E.,  1906. 

The  following  country  locations 
were  occupied  by  doctors  at  the 
dates  designated: 

Big  Grove,  Dr.  Fulkerson,i83O. 

Farmhouse  of  Mijamin  Byers, 
two  miles  east  of  Urbana,  Dr. 
James  H.  Lyon,  1832. 

Farm  house,  Hensley  Township, 
one  mile  west  of  Five  Points  on 
the  Bloomington  road.  Dr.  Scott 
in  the  early  sixties. 

Farm-house  of  David  Jessee, 
Crittenden  Township,  Dr.  Charles 
B.  Johnson,  1871-4. 

Orizaba,  one  mile  north  of  Long 
View,  Dr.  R.  P.  Ratts  about  1870. 

Old  Head  Quarters,  south  of 
Homer,  Dr.  W.  F.  Burres,  1881, 
and  Dr.  George  T.  Rowland, 
1882-3. 

Burr  Oak  Grove,  northeast  part 
of  County,  Dr.  D.  R.  McKinney, 
1867-1878. 

Sugar  Grove  (now  Kerr  Town- 
ship). Dr.  Isaac  Hobart,  1850  to 
about  1862. 

Farm  house  of  William  Peabody 


a   mile   north   of  the   present   vil-  Houstonville,  a  country  postof- 

lage  of  Fisher,  Dr.  S.  H.  Birney,  fice,  (now  no  longer  in  existence) 

about  1859.  in    East    Bend     Township.        Dr. 

Farm  house  of  John  Pusey,  Con-  Wantling,   from   about      1868     to 
dit  Township,  one  Dr.  McFee     in 
the  early  sixties. 


PATRIOTISM    OF    CHAMPAIGN    COUNTY   DOCTORS 


The  roll  of  Champaign  County  Infantry;  Dr.  D.  P.  McClure,  64th 
physicians  who  offered  their  ser-  Ohio  Infantry;  Dr.  J.  T.  Miller, 
vices  to  the  country  in  its  days  of*  '6oth  Illinois  Infantry;  Dr. 
peril  is  a  long  one;  much  longer  C.  H.  Mills,  i25th  Illinois  Infan- 
the  writer  has  reason  to  think,  try;  Dr.  C.  A.  Thompson,  i25th  II- 
than  can  be  put  on  record  in  these  linois  Infantry,  I3th  Illinois  In- 
pages,  as  it  is  believed  the  names'  fantry  and  ox>th  Illinois  Infantry, 
of  a  number  who  served  in  the  In  addition  to  the  above  list  of 
civil  war  cannot  now  be  secured.  medical  men  who  gave  their  pro- 
fessional service  and  one  of  them 

Among  those   who     served     as  his  life  to  the  country  there  is  a 

surgeons    may    be    mentioned   the  goodly    number      of     doctors      in 

names  of  Dr.  S.  H.  Birney,  I35th  Champaign  County  who  served  in 

Illinois  Infantry;  Dr.  R.  H.  Brown,  the  ranks  when  mere  boys. 
25th   Illinois   Infantry;   Dr.  J.     G. 

Chambers,  icpth  Pennsylvania  Among  these  may  be  named, 
infantry;  J.  S.  Coggeshall,  2nd  Dr.  E.  C.  Bartholow,  Dr.  J.  M. 
Indiana  Cavalry;  A.  Jackson  Craiu  Bartholow,  Dr.  John  M.  Gardiner, 
2nd  Illinois  Cavalry;  Jacob  Cul-  Dr.  Goodman,  Dr.  J.  M.  Hadden, 
ver,  71  st  Illinois  Infantry:  W.  S.  Dr.  Apollis  Hess,  Dr.  J.  C.  Har- 
Franklin  (went  from  Champaign  mon,  Dr.  H.  S.  Hickman,  Dr.  R. 
County  as  surgeon  in  an  Ohio  H.  Huddleston,  Dr.  David  Jen- 
regiment,  but  what  regiment  is  nings,  Dr.  Charles  B.  Johnson,  Dr. 
riot  known);  Dr.  M.  Garst,  7ist  E.A.Kratz,Dr.  Wesley  Lawson,Dr. 
Illinois  Infantry;  Dr.  Lyman  J.  D.  Mandeville,  Dr.  D.  R.  Mc- 
Hall,  63rd  Illinois  Infantry;  Dr.,  Kinney,  Dr.  John  North,  Dr.  J.  T. 
William  H.  Hess,  I45th  Illinois  Purcell  and  Dr.  W.  B.  Simms. 

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INTERESTING   FACTS    IN    THE    HISTORIES    OF 


CERTAIN    DOCTORS 


Dr.  J.  T.  Miller  of  Urbana  is  the 
Nestor  of  Champaign  County 
medicine  as  he  has  been 
in  continuous  practice  longer 
than  any  one  else.  Dr.  Miller 
located  in  Urbana,  April  29, 
1853.  After  Dr.  Miller,  Dr. 
Howard  is  the  oldest  physician 
in  the  County  who  is  yet  in  active 
practice,  though  Dr.  S.  S.  Salis- 
bury of  Tolono,  also  in  active\ 
practice,  is  Dr.  Howard's  junior 
by  only  ten  days. 

Dr.  J.  T.  Purcell  of  St.  Joseph, 


a  veteran  of  the  civil  war,  served 
five  years  and  nine  months,  be- 
lieved to  be  the  longest  term  of 
military  service  rendered  by  any 
volunteer  soldier  in  the  County. 

Dr.  J.  M.  Bartholow  of  Urbana 
enlisted  when  only  fifteen  years  of 
age  and  served  two  and  one-half 
years. 

Dr.  John  H.  Gardiner  of  Ma- 
homet enlisted  in  the  last  year 
of  the  war  when  but  fifteen  years 
of  age  and  served  his  full  time. 


ACCIDENTS    AND    VIOLENT    DEATHS    IN   THE 
PROFESSION 


Late  in  the  sixties  Dr.  D.  P.  Mc- 
Clure  in  visiting  a  patient  near 
Thomasboro  attempted  to  cross  a 
slough  in  a  time  of  high  water  that 
was  followed  by  a  severe  cold  snap. 
In  consequence  there  was  consid- 
erable ice  and  in  crossing  the 
horse  floundered,  got  under  the 
ice  and  was  drowned  while  the 
doctor  had  a  very  narrow  escape 
with  his  own  life. 

July  4,  1855,  some  of  the  citizens 
of  Mahomet  were  celebrating  the 
day  by  firing  an  anvil  when  this 
burst  and  a  large  fragment  struck 
one  of  the  bystanders,  Dr.  C.  L. 
Crane,  and  mangled  one  of  his  legs 
so  severely  that  amputation  was 


necessary.  Later  blood  poisoning 
took  place  and  the  patient  died 
about  a  month  after  the  accident. 

About  1870  Dr.  Edward  Tour- 
lette  located  at  Ogden  and  in 
connection  with  his  practice  ran  a 
drug  store.  A  year  later  his  wife 
died  from  an  overdose  of  chloro- 
form administered  by  herself,  but 
whether  the  fatal  consequences 
were  the  result  of  accident  or  in- 
tentional was  never  known. 

However,  the  result  so  preyed 
upon  the  mind  of  Dr.  Tourlette, 
that  precisely  four  weeks  after  his 
wife's  death  he  died  from  a  large1 
dose  of  laudanum,  taken  with  sui- 
cidal intent. 


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PROGRESS    IN    MEDICINE 
DURING  THE  PIONEER,  INTERMEDIATE  AND  MODERN  ERAS 


The  history  of  medicine  in 
Champaign  County  had  ifs  begin- 
ning near  the  end  of  the  first  third 
of  the  Nineteenth  Century.  For 
convenience  of  study  this  history 
may  be  divided  into  three  periods. 
The  first  period,  the  Pioneer  Era, 
ended  in  1850;  the  second,  the  In- 
termediate Period,  in  1877;  and  the 
third  for  want  of  a  better  name 
may  be  called  the  Modern  Era, 
which  embraces  our  day. 

THE  PIONEER  ERA 

During  the  Pioneer  Era  a  va- 
riety of  causes  conspired  to  espe- 
cially handicap  the  practitioner  of 
medicine  on  the  frontier.  To  be- 
gin with,  by  reason  of  circum- 
stances over  which  he  had  little  or 
no  control,  he  often  began  his  pro- 
fessional duties  with  inadequate 
preparation.  Seventy  odd  years 
ago  Medical  Colleges  were  few  in 
number  and  for  the  most  part 
poorly  equipped.  Then  with  the 
poor  and  slow  means  of  locomo- 
tion that  characterized  the  period, 
these  Colleges  were  little  short  of 
inaccessible  to  the  majority  of  the 
medical  students.  Moreover,  med- 
ical books  were  not  plenty  as  in 
our  time,  and  those  that  could  be 
had  were  relatively  high  priced. 
Medical  periodicals  were  few,  and 
upon  these  the  postage  was  so 
high  as  to,  in  effect,  be  almost  pro- 


hibitive in  many  instances.  Rare 
was  it  that  the  Pioneer  doctor  had 
taken  the  required  two  courses  of 
lecture.,  necessary  for  graduation; 
indeed,  he  was  fortunate  if  cir- 
cumstances had  permitted  him  to 
take  one  course,  and  not  unfre- 
quently  his  sole  qualification  for 
the  important  business  of  caring 
for  the  life  and  health  of  the  fron- 
tiersman was  a  period  of  office  tui- 
tion, taken  in  an  older  state  with 
some  doctor  of  local  reputation. 
Then  after  beginning  practice  he 
was  embarrassed  by  the  great  diffi- 
culty of  obtaining  needed  supplies 
in  the  way  of  medicines  and  in- 
struments. The  great  city  was 
many  miles  away  and  the 
means  of  reaching  it  slow,  tedious 
and  uncertain.  Thus  limited  in 
education,  limited  in  opportunities 
for  self-improvement,  limited  in 
means  for  treating  disease,  the 
practitioner  of  the  frontier  was 
compelled  to  fall  back  upon  him- 
self and  depend  upon  resources 
near  at  hand. 

Consequently  if  books  and  per- 
iodicals were  scarce,  those  on  hand 
were  read  with  care;  and  thest 
well-scanned,  the  great  book  of 
nature  was  turned  to  and  from  its 
open  pages  no  end  of  practical 
knowledge  was  obtained.  The  re- 
sult was,  that  while  the  Pioneer 
doctor  was  in  no  sense  a  learned 


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man,  he  in  time  became  a  ready, 
observing  and  resourceful  man. 
And  if  in  some  emergency  an  in- 
strument was  needed  he  could  im- 
provise it;  if  a  particular  drug  was 
indicated,  its  substitute  was  gath- 
ered from  the  fields  or  may  be  ob- 
tained from  some  crude  mineral. 

But  while  self  reliance  and  re- 
sourcefulness were  his  noble  vir- 
tues, the  Pioneer  doctor  was  not 
without  his  faults — faults,  let  it 
be  said  in  extenuation,  almost 
wholly  due  to  his  environment, 
but  faults  nevertheless.  Lack  of 
familiarity  with  medical  literature 
and  of  opportunity  to  ex- 
change views  with  his  fellow  prac- 
titioner in  medical  societies  aiu, 
kindred  meetings  had  a  tendency 
to  make  him  narrow,  opinionated 
and  over-confident.  The  result 
was,  if  he  was  fortunate  enough  to 
escape  the  fate  of  sinking  hopeless- 
ly in  the  mire  of  prejudice,  he  was 
almost  sure  to  settle  deeper  and 
deeper  in  the  rut  of  routine.  Hence 
his  long  use  and  persistent  abuse 
of  that  old  therapeutic  tripod, 
bleeding,  blistering  and  heroic 
doses  of  calomel. 

THE  INTERMEDIATE  ERA 

The  period  between  1850  and 
1877  was  a  great  improvement  on 
the  Pioneer  Era  that  had  preceded 
it.  Medical  Colleges  had  increased 
in  number  and  had  improved  in 
equipment.  Moreover  not  a  few 
were  nearer  at  hand.  Cincinnati, 


Louisville  and  Chicago  all  had  one 
or   more   medical   schools.     Then, 
too,  railways  had  come  in  general 
use   and  afforded  ready  means  of 
travel.     Medical  books  were  more 
plentiful  and  more  easily  obtained, 
and  there  had  been  a  marked  in- 
crease  in    medical      literature   and 
this,  with  the  coming  of  cheap  pos- 
tage, was  much  more  widely  dis- 
seminated.    The  marked  improve- 
ment in  the  means  of  locomotion 
that    railways    brought   about   was 
followed  by  a  great  influx  of  pop- 
lation  and  with     the     latter  came 
more  doctors.     And     with     an  in- 
crease in  the  number  of  doctors, 
Medical   Societies   were   organized 
and  these  brought  an  exchange  of 
views     and     experiences     between 
practitioners  and     stimulated     the 
latter  to  more     extended     reading 
and  wider  culture.     One  result  of 
this   better   education,   more   read- 
ing and  exchange  of  ideas  among 
the  doctors  of  this  period,  was  to 
call  in  question  the  utility  of     the 
heroic  measures  of  their  predeces- 
sors.    It  must  be  said,  too,  that  the 
ignorant  botanic  and  that  medical 
monomaniac  of  the  first  half  of  the 
nineteenth  century,  the  steam  doc- 
tor, had  no  little  share  in  demon- 
strating the  folly  of  an  indiscrim- 
inate resort  to  bleeding,  the  rou- 
tine use  of  blisters  and  setons,  and 
the  giving  of  mercury     with     the 
avowed   purpose  of  inducing  sali- 
vation in  so  many  instances.     As  a 
result  of     these     combined     influ- 


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ences,  not  long  after  the  begin- 
ning of  the  second  half  of  the 
nineteenth  century,  powerful 
drugs  and  heroic  measures  came 
to  be  used  less  and  less  in  the 
treatment  of  disease.  While  na- 
ture's simples,  such  as  fresh  air, 
sunlight  and  cold  water  came  to 
be  recognized  as  potent  therapeu- 
tic agents  that  no  progressive  phy- 
sician could  afford  to  ignore. 

Early  in  1861  came  the  great 
civil  war  that  for  four  long  years 
dragged  out  its  weary  length.  But 
with  all  its  attendant  evils  and 
hardships  this  contest  was  not 
wholly  without  its  compensation. 
One  of  these  was  the  affording  of 
unequalled  opportunities  to  the 
medical  profession  for  the  study  of 
certain  classes  of  disease  and 
injuries.  The  prolonged  duration 
and  great  magnitude  of  the  war 
created  so  great  a  demand  for  sur- 
geons that  every  doctor  in  the 
country  who  had  the  requisite 
qualifications,  had  opportunity  to 
enter  the  medical  department  of 
the  army  if  he  so  desired.  What 
we  today  call  asepsis,  or  absolute 
surgical  cleanliness,  was  not  un- 
derstood in  the  civil  war  period. 
Nevertheless  the  treatment  of  gun- 
shot wounds  in  this  time  had  in 
its  favor  not  a  little  to  commend. 
One  of  its  good  features  was  sim- 
plicity. In  the  first  stages  gunshot 
wounds  were  treated  with  cold 
water  dressings.  Later  when  sup- 
puration began,  applications  of  a 


sort  of  soothing  salve  known  as 
simple  cerate,  was  made  use  of 
with  most  excellent  results. 

In  the  medical  department  ol 
the  army  during  the  War  of  the 
Rebellion  Champaign  County  was 
well  and  ably  represented.  Details 
of  the  representation  will  be  found 
elsewhere. 

In  this  Intermediate  Period  the 
average  education  of  the  medical 
practitioner  was  much  higher  than 
it  had  been  in  the  Pioneer  Era,  but 
there  was  yet  room  for  greater 
improvement.  The  profession  of 
medicine  was  open  to  all,  and  who- 
soever desired  could  enter  upon 
its  responsible  duties;  there  were 
absolutely  no  restrictions  outside 
of  popular  c  'nion,  and  often- 
times the  standards  of  the  people 
were  hopelessly  low.  At  this  time, 
as  there  has  always  been,  there 
were  a  great  many  well  qualified 
and  not  a  few  high  educated  men 
in  the  profession.  But  on  the 
other  hand  there  were  some  en- 
gaged in  practice  who  were  igno- 
rant and  thick-headed  to  an  ap- 
palling degree.  Strange  as  it  may 
now  seem  to  many  there 
were  at  this  time  in  enlightened 
Champaign  County,  a  number  of 
reputable  practitioners  who  had 
never  seen  the  inside  walls  of  a 
Medical  College.  There  were 
still  a  larger  number  who  had  at- 
tended lectures,  but  who  had  nev- 
er graduated  in  medicin,  while 


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among  those  who  were  graduates 
were  men  whose  preliminary  edu- 
cation had  been  so  limited  as  to 
leave  them  little  better  than  illit- 
erates. 

This   brings   us  to     the   consid- 
eration of  the 

THE  MODERN  ERA 

That  began  a  little  after  the 
Centennial  year,  1876,  and  that 
reaches  to  our  day.  As  elsewhere 
detailed,  at  a  meeting  of  the  Illi- 
nois State  Medical  Society  held  in 
the  Twin  Cities  in  May,  1876, 
steps  were  taken  to  secure  the  en- 
actment of  laws  that  would  aid  in 
the  establishment  of  a  high  stand- 
ard of  medical  education,  a  better 
observance  of  the  principles  of 
sanitation  and  a  curtailment  of  the 
spread  of  contagion.  This  is  no 
place  for  details,  hence,  let  it  suf- 
fice to  say  that  in  1877  the  much 
desired  legislation  was  secured  and 
went  into  effect.  And  while  in 
practice  these  laws  have  by  no 
means  proved  ideal,  yet  under 
their  influence  progress  has  been 
so  great  and  so  encouraging  that 
he  who  would  return  to  the  old 
go-as-you-please  methods  must  be 
blind  indeed.  While  the  writer 
has  no  disposition  to  dwell  unduly 
on  the  "then-and-now"  phase  of 
this  question,  yet  a  few  facts  in  the 
way  of  contrast  may  not  be  unin- 
structive. 

A  third  of  a  century     ago  any- 


body could  practice  medicine  in 
Illinois  and  no  one  could  interfere; 
health  officers  and  health  boards 
could  be  found  only  in  the  larger 
cities;  and  outside  these  large  cit- 
ies no  means  worthy  the  name 
could  be  put  in  force  to  prevent 
the  spread  of  contagion;  indeed, 
comparatively  few  physicians  had 
a  proper  appreciation  of  the  in- 
fectious character  of  many  mala- 
dies that  are  now  classed  as  pre- 
ventable diseases. 

In  our  state  today  no  one  can 
begin  the  practice  of  medicine 
without  passing  the  examination 
of  the  Illinois  State  Medical  Ex- 
amining Board;  no  one  can  take 
this  medical  examination  of  the 
State  Board  of  Medical  Examiners 
who  is  not  a  graduate  of  a  repu- 
table medical  school;  no  one  can 
enter  this  reputable  medical  school 
who  has  not,  at  least,  the  equiva- 
lent of  a  high  school  education, 
and  finally,  no  one  can  graduate 
from  this  reputable  medical  col- 
lege who  has  not  devoted  four 
years  to  attending  its  graded 
courses  of  instruction. 

In  the  way  of  disease-preven- 
tion the  contrast  with  thirty  odd 
years  ago  is  striking.  Every 
township  and  every  village  may 
now  have,  and  indeed  nearly  all  do 
have,  local  Boards  of  Health  to 
look  after  the  health  interests  of 
the  community.  Doctors  and  peo- 
ple alike  have  come  to  realize  the 


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truth  of  the  old  adage,  "An  ounce 
of  prevention  is  worth  a  pound  of 
cure."  There  is  hardly  a  com- 
munity in  Illinois  where  the  gen- 
eral health  has  not  been  greatly 
improved  and  the  death  rate  very 
much  reduced  by  this  work  in  the 
direction  of  disease  prevention. 
Statistics  and  figures  could  be 
piled  up  to  prove  these  state- 
ments, but  this  would  be  tedious 
to  the  reader.  In  a  conversation 
not  long  since  between  the  writer 
and  an  undertaker,  who  for  many 
years  has  followed  his  business  in 
central  Illinois,  the  fact  was 
brought  out  that  where  forty  to 
fifty  years  ago  children  furnished 
a  considerable  part  of  the  under- 
taker's business  in  recent  years  the 
burial  of  a  child  had  become  so 
rare  as  almost  to  excite  surprise. 

CONCLUSION 

The   medical   history    of   Cham- 


paign County  had  its  beginning 
more  than  two  generations  in  the 
*^st,  when  a  solitary  physician, 
Dr.  Fulkerson,  located  at  the  head 
of  the  Big  Grove  settlement,  five 
miles  north  of  Urbana.  Since  that 
time  full  eighty  years  have  run 
their  course  and  today,  at  the  be- 
ginning of  the  Twentieth  Century, 
no  less  than  one  hundred  doctors 
attended  to  their  professional  du- 
ties within  the  limits  of  Champaign 
County.  And  while  it  may  be 
questionable  taste  for  an  individ- 
ual member  of  this  hundred  to 
speak  of  the  whole  in  complimen- 
tary terms,  nevertheless,  the  writer 
will  speak  his  mind  and  say: 
There  are  few  localities  of  like  ex- 
tent that  have  better,  all-around 
physicians  than  Champaign  Coun- 
ty. And  taken  as  a  whole  their 
average  attainments,  in  character, 
in  morals,  in  citizenship,  is  com- 
raendably  high. 


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INDEX 


Adams,  N.  H 9 

Alpers,  J.  H 9 

Bartholow,  E.  C 9 

Bartholow,  J.  M 10 

Banquet,  Fortieth  Annual 55 

Banquet,  Fiftieth  Annual 59 

Birdsell,  E.  1 10 

Biographical  Sketches 8 

Birney,  S.  H . . . . 

Board,  Hospital 

Bondville 

Broad  lands.... 

Brown,  R.  H 

Brown,  M.  8 

Burres,  W.  F 

Burrill,  T.  J   . 

Burr  Oak  Grove 

Catron  A 

Chaffee,  Herman 

Chambers,  Jacob  G H 

Champaign  City 

(also  see  Introduction) 
Champaign  County,  see  introduction . .  5 
Champaign  County  Medical  Society. .  .53 

Cheever,  Daniel 

Coggeshall,  Job  S 

Cogswell,  G.  E 

Conkey,  W.  A 8,  15 

Core,  James  16 

Cooper,  Chas  J 15 

Conclusion   81 

Country  Locations 63 

Crane,  C.  D 16 

Culver,  Jacob  16 

Cushing,  Henry  E . . .    17 

Darrah,  Alexander  T 18 

Dewey 65 

Dillon,  William 19 

Dillon,  Amos 19 

Directors,  Hospital,  Board  of 61 

Doctors,  Pioneer 6 

Doctors,  Interesting  Facts  Pertaining  to  75 

Fisher 65 

Farm  House,  Crittenden  Township 74 


Furm  House,  Hensley  Township 74 

Farm  House,  Mijamin  Byers 74 

Farm  House,  Wm.  Peabody 74 

Fiftieth  Annual  Banquet 54 

Fifty  Years  in  Practice 58 

Fortieth  Annual  Banquet 55 

Forbes,  Stephen  A 50 

Foosland 65 

Franklin,  Dr .  .20 

Frontispiece 1 

Fugate,  John  T 20 

Fulkerson,  Champaign  County's  First 

Doctor 6 

Garst,  VI 21 

Gardiner,  John  H 21 

Gardiner,  J.  D 21 

Gifford 66 

Gillum,  A.  D 21 

Goodwin,  A.  D 21 

Gregory,  John  M 50 

Hall,  Abbie  G 24 

Hall,  Lyman 22 

Hidden,  J.  M 22 

Hanmore.  J .  J 23 

Harris,  J.  F 24 

Harmon,  J.  C 24 

Hartinan,  G.  W 25 

Hawes,  C.  C 6 

Hess,  A  R 26 

Hess,  T.  M 27 

Hospital,  Julia  F.  Burnham 60 

Howard,  Hartwell  C .26 

Hospital  Staff 61 

Hunt,  C.  A ; 28 

Incidents 76 

Ivesdale 66 

Investing  Facis,  etc 76 

Intermediate  Era 77 

Jennings,  David 28 

Johnson,  Charles  B 29 

Joined  the  Silent  Majority . .  .59 

Kemp,  George  T 57 

Kincaid,  S.  W 20 

King,  D.  A.  K 34 


Kratz,  E.  A 30 

Lawson,  J.  M 80 

Lindley,  A.  M 31 

Lindley,  Mahlon 31 

Locations  of  Physicians   63 

Longview 67 

Ludlow 67 

Lyons,  James  H 7 

Mahomet 67 

Mamteville,  John  D 32 

Marten,  John 32 

Martinie,  C.  W 33 

Medical  Practice  Act  62 

Medicine,  Progress  in  77 

Members,  Lfst  of  in  1860   53 

Members,  List  of  in  1899 56 

Members,  List  of  in  1909 57 

Members  Deceased  (see  Silent  Majority )59 

Modern  Era 80 

McClelland,  C.  B 33 

McKinney,  David  R 34 

McKinney,  Thomas  J 35 

McClure,  D.  P 34 

Miller,  Joseph  T 35 

Mills,  Charles  H 36 

Miner,  Ellen 36 

M.nturn,  J.  M 37 

Morris,  B.  C   37 

Morrison,  James  E   37 

M  osier,  Philip  C 37 

Newcomb,  W.  K 39 

North,  John 39 

North,  Miss  Francess 52 

Ogden 67 

Old  Headquarters 74 

Orizaba 74 

Page,  Samuel  K 40 

Patriotism  of  Champaign  Co.  Doctors.  .75 


Pearman,  John  T 49 

Penfield 68 

Pesotum 68 

Philo 68 

Pioneer  Doctors 6 

Pioneer  Era   78 

Politics,  Champaign  Co  Doctors  in 61 

Polk,  John  L 41 

Progress  in  Medicine 77 

Prefatory 4 

Purcell,  J.  T 42 

Rantoul 62 

Rowland,  G.  T... 42 

Saddler,  John  S 42 

Salisbury  Samuel  Scott 42 

Sadorus 69 

Seymour ...  69 

Shaw,  Homer  A 43 

Shumaker,  R,  W 43 

Sims,  W.  B 43 

Scroggs,  J.  W 44 

Smith,  E.  S 44 

Somers,  Winston 7 

Stevens,  Harmon 7 

Sidney 70 

St.  Joseph 72 

Sugar  Grove 74 

Thompson,  A.  T 45 

Tolono 73 

Urbana 73 

VanDoren,  C.  L 46 

Violent  Deaths  and  Accidents 76 

Walker,  T.  E   46 

White,  C.  N 47 

White,  J.  E 47 

Whitmire,  Z.  T 48 

Wilcox,  L.  S 48 


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